Visit to LANDAU FINE ART, Montreal:

-Joan Miro, pencil drawing.
-Rene Magritte, almost monochromatic painting.
-Pablo Picasso, pencil drawing dated 10 Oct. 1965.
-Henri Matisse, face drawn in pencil, 1938.
-Ferdinand Leger, 1927, oil on canvas.
-Georges Braques, 1917, oil on canvas.
-Jean DuBuffet, 1958, oil on canvas.
-Jean DuBuffet, 1975, oil on canvas.
-Max Ernst, painting / frottage.
-Paul Klee x 2.
-Amadeo Mogdiliani, rare potrait of a couple, oil on canvas.

"Make way for Magic,
make way for Love."

-excerpt from Refus global
August 9, 1948
Montreal, Quebec

@ Galerie Simon Blais:

Jean-Paul Riopelle, "Paysage d'autre fois", 1977, oil on canvas. ($325 000)

Jean-Paul Riopelle, "Eclat", 1977, oil on canvas. ($325 000)

Marcelle Feron, "Untitled", 1954, oil on canvas. ($90 000)

Titles:

Self-portrait under the influence of the Moon (in the 8th house).
Self-portrait under the influence of Saturn (in the 10th house).
Self-portrait under the influence of Rahu (in the 9th house).
Self portrait under the influence of Venus (in the 11th house).
Self-portrait under the influence of the Sun & Mercury (in the 12th house).

OK PAINT POT

"In conclusion, I hope that this mediocrity, conditioned by too many factors foreign to art per se, will this time bring a revolution on the aesthetic level, of which the general public will not even by aware and which only a few intiates will develop on the fringe of a world blinded by economic fire-works. The great artist of tomorrow will go underground."

-MARCEL DuCHAMP, "Where do we go from here?", 1961.

Lucien Freud, dead @ 88, in London.

R.I.P., great lion.

Four hours a night,
seven days a week,
for 16 months

= one painting.

"Art is about seizing & holding space."

-Carl Andre

T.S.I.T.C.O.T
(The soul is the center of things), 2011.

(The monotony of perfection)

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario:

Caravaggio, "Boy bitten by a lizard:, 1594-1596, oil on canvas.

Caravaggio, "The Musicians", 1595, oil on canvas.

Caravaggio, "The Cardsharps", 1595, oil on canvas.

Caravaggio, "the Gypsy Fortuneteller", 1595, oil on canvas.

Caravaggio, "Saint Francis", 1598, oil on canvas.

Caravaggio, "Martha & Mary Magdalene", 1598, oil on canvas.

Caravaggio, "Saint Francis in ectasy", 1594-95, oil on canvas.

Caravaggio, "Saint John the Baptist in the wilderness", 1604-05, oil on canvas.

Caravaggio, "Saint Francis", 1606-07, oil on canvas.

Caravaggio, "Sacrifice of Isaac", 1602-03, oil on canvas.

Caravaggio, "Sacrifice of Isaac", 1598-99, oil on canvas.


Peter Paul Rubens, "The entombment", 1612-14, oil on canvas.

Paul Klee, "Angst", 1934, oil on canvas.

Max Beckman, "North Sea I (Thunderstorm)", 1937, oil on canvas.

Norval Morrisseau, "Observations of the Astral World", 1994, acrylic on canvas.

Chaim Soutine, "Piece of Beef", 1923, oil on canvas.

Vincent van Gogh, "Iris", 1889, oil on canvas.

Gustave Courbet, "Waves", 1869, oil on canvas.

Oscar Cahen, "The Warrior", 1956, oil on canvas.

Tom Thompson, "Hot summer moonlight", 1915, oil on board.

Rita Latendre, "Atara", 1963, oil on canvas.

Paul-Emile Borduas, "Tree in the night", 1943, oil on canvas.

Guido Molinari, "Quantifier la Rochelle No. 1", 1980, oil oi canvas.

Daphne Odig, "Infinite Cycle", 1961, oil on canvas.

Cy Twombly, "Tikrit", 1953, oil on canvas.

Cy Twombly, "Academy", 1955, oil on canvas.

Cy Twombly, "Near Parnasus", 1964, oil on canvas.

Cy Twombly, "Wilder shores of Love", 1985, oil on canvas.

Cy Twombly, "Nini's painting", 1971, oil on canvas.

Cy Twombly, "Camino Real II", 2010, acrylic on canvas.