Grenoble Museum

Giorgio VASARI 'Family of Saints' c1541-47

Yes, I think it's that Vasari - bitchy writer of 'Lives of the artists'. In the collection there are two pieces illustrating the supper Christ ate at Emmaus, a particular focus:



Mathias STOMER 'Supper at Emmaus' c1600-1650

Laurent de LA HYRE 'Supper at Emmaus' 1656

Okay, there's more I snapped at Musee de Grenoble from Renaissance through to 19th century I can post another time. From the past 100 or so years...

If you thought 'Picasso' you were fooled like I was. In fact, it is Karl HOFER 'Portrait of Alfred Flechtheim' 1922. How wonderful! Here is a real work by Picasso:

Pablo PICASSO 'Woman Reading' 1920

and another, later in his career:

Pablo PICASSO 'Musketeer & child' 1972



There are one or two paintings in the museum by several other 'megastar' oil painters of the last century:

Henri MATISSE 'Interior with Aubergines' 1911

And now for some painters I've never heard of - yet remind me of others that I know and admire:

Francois DUFRENE 'Nabis-bis'
( translation: Dark-twice [?] ) 1960

Jean DUBUFFET Passe Flux (L 50) 1984

I can't help but think of Scottish-born, long-term Australian resident artist Ian Fairweather when I see these pictures. The second painting here, by Dubuffet, also evokes work by Australian Indigenous painters like Emily Kame Kngwarreye