The Barnes Foundation

The Peasants by Picasso, 1906


The Postman (Joseph-Étienne Roulin) by Van Gogh, 1889

I visited The Barnes Foundation last Friday. These are a few of the paintings that I liked from the collection. It's amazing the amount of art that Dr. Barnes collected, and from a lot of artistic legends none the less. I'm glad that I got the chance to go before the paintings are moved into the city. You can see Dr. Barnes' full collection of paintings online at The Barnes Foundation website.

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Le Repas Frugal

Pablo Picasso, 1904

The million-dollar etching. Can you imagine how long this must have taken? I really like it, the lanky figures with their boney fingers and their pointed features. It's very expressive.

Family of Saltimbanques

Pablo Picasso, 1905

The Bullfight

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary." — Pablo Picasso

The Lovers

Pablo Picasso, 1923

This specific painting falls under Picasso's NeoClassical period during WWI and WWII. "It is believed that he did this as a reaction to society's disillusionment and shock from the horrors of the war. Perhaps, in its own way, it was a way of returning his own psyche to a state of order and peace (wikipedia.org)." I really like this one. It's so colorful. Picasso is such a fascinating artist to research with all of his different periods of work.