A recent (not so recent) art show in KL

Last year's art show at MARTRADE (couldn't make it this year)... and some of my pick...

A photo op with the artist...

and some friends...

Beaubourg VII: Chagall and the Surrealists

From previous year's visit to the Beaubourg or Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris - the collection of Chagall...and his other peers of the period.

Chagall: Bella au col blanc, 1917

Otto Dix: Bildnis der Journalistin Sylvia von Harden, 1926

(Portrait of the journalist Sylvia von Harden)

Otto Dix: Erinnurengen an die Spiegelsäle von Brüssel, 1920

(Memories of the mirrored hall in Brussel, 1920)

Balthus: La toilette de Cathy, 1933

On Biomorphisme- Max Ernst: Fleurs de coquillages, 1929

Giorgio de Chirico: Ritrattro premonitore di Guillaume Apollinaire, 1914

(Premonitory portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire)

Yves Tanguy: A quatre heure d'été, l'espoir, 1929

(At four o'clock in summer, hope)

Chagall: Les mariès de la tour Eiffel, 1938-39

(The bride and bridegroom of the Eiffel Tower)

Beaubourg VI: The Post-Impressionists (II) Kandinsky

My personal favourite at the Beaubourg was Kandinsky...

Impression V, 1911

With a black arch, 1912

Bild mit rotem Fleck, 1914

Im Grau, 1919 (In the gray)

Gelb-Rot-Blau, 1925

Bleu de ciel, 1940

Trente, 1937

Beaubourg V: The Post-Impressionists (I) Matisse and the Fauvists

Some masterpieces from the permanent collection of Centre Georges Pompidou...

Matisse: Pont saint Michel, towards 1900

Derain: Le pont au pecq, 1904

Raoul Dufy: La rue pavoisée, 1906

Matisse: L'algérienne, 1909

Matisse: le peintre dans son atelier, 1916-17

(The painter in his workshop)

Alberto Magnelli: Nature morte à la pomme, 1914

Matisse: Liseuse sur fond noir, 08/1939

Matisse: La Blouse roumaine, 04/1940

Matisse: Nature morte au magnolia, 10/1941

Matisse: Polynésie, le ciel, 1946

Pierre Bonnard: Nu de dos à la toilette, 1934

Pierre Bonnard: Coin de table, towards 1935

Pierre Bonnard: L'atelier au mimosa, 1939-46

Juan Gris: Nature morte sur une chaise, 1917

Fernand Léger: Le réveil-matin, 1914

Fernand Léger: Les disques dans la ville, 1920

Fernand Léger: Composition aux trois figures, 1931

Robert Delaunay: Manège de cochons, 1932

Beaubourg IV: The Blues and others from the Miró Collection

Part of the permanent collection at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris consists of paintings by the modernists including Miró. Presented was the "Bleus", works of Miró strongly impregnated with the use of blue from the 1920s up till the 1960s.

Bleu 1: 1961

La sieste: 1925

Le catalan:1925

Baigneuse, automne: 1924 (Bathers, autumn)

Peinture: 04/05 1927