TR 1.3 - "NIght Fishing at Antibes"

[Richard Ryan]

When I learned that the Picasso which so transfixes Wyatt is owned by
the MOMA I was eager to go and have a look at it myself...and was
disappointed to discover that (at least according to the museum's
online catalogue) it's not currently on display.  The page doesn't
indicate if the canvas is on loan or in storage.

I've likely looked it over, or overlooked it, in the huge Picasso
retrospective back in 1980 or simply on the walls of the museum in
early years, but I have no memory of it....and given its uneven
critical reception, it would seem the painting doesn't have the same
impact on many people as it does on our hero.  Part of Wyatt's point
about "really seeing" perhaps.

http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=78433

(By the way, the acoustiguide "gloss" on the painting linked on the
MOMA catalog page is apparently intended for children or very slow
adults - it's EXTREMELY annoying....)

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Richard Ryan
New York and the World
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