One of the more exotic Impressionists, who actually moved to the South Sea islands in the Pacific is Paul Gauguin and his paintings reflect this change of venue. This one is called the Moon and the Earth.
A strange portrait is this one by Gauguin— of Meijer de Haan
Somewhat better represented is Cezanne… this one is simply labelled Pines and Rocks
Or this one called Chateau Noir…
The most famous of his paintings in this museum is Still Life with Apples
There were more avant garde painters in the Paris circle… as is chronicled here…
As is well known, Pablo Picasso went through various different periods in his painting, with perhaps his cubist paintings be the most famous and not surprisingly, MOMA favors those, but here is a painting of a woman sleeping that is different.
Or consider this representation of a fruit dish….
But once he went into his cubist style, could you tell this is Still Life with a Liqueur Bottle?
A bit more representational is Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Teller)
Less so is ‘My Joy’—
Not from the cubist period, nor from the blue period is this painting of Two Nudes by Picasso—
Without question, the most famous of Rousseau’s painting is ‘My Dream’ which was a gift to this museum from Nelson Rockefeller…
MOMA has several paintings by Henri Matisse for instance 
This is called Interior with a Violin Case
Here is Periwinkles in a Moroccan Garden
There were not many women artists among the Impressionists, or painting in their period or into the 1950s but Leonora Carrington is an exception and here is an exceptional painting from 1953. The title is, And Then we Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur
In our next post we will move along to the other museum I had time for– the Guggenheim.
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