Aix-en-provence is a charming town, if you like towns, and awash with culture. We were there for the Max Earnst exhibition and it was well worth the trip.
We visited Cezannes studio and were touched and humbled...
and we saw the Jean Planque collection and were thrilled.
Here's Kat, being thrilled. Jean Planque collected art in the days when it was possible - he schmoozed Picasso, for example - and as he worked in the wonderful world of galleries he met the great and the good and did deals. His collection is generally described as eclectic but that's only because it doesn't map onto an existing format. His taste - and guile and cunning- shines throughout. None of it what's called first rate (ie not major sale room priced) but all of it informative and alive. Heartily recommended.
I'd write more, lots to say - but of the group I alone have come back with covid. My first time (and fully vaxxed) It's not too bad in conjunction with fever-controlling drugs, but it knocks out the stuffing.
Others hereabouts have it too. Mask up, wash up, don't hang out with too many people. I'm in isolation for the foreseeable...
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