I wouldn’t go quite so far as to describe myself as an art expert, although I have heard of Picasso. Yet the visit to the 3rd floor of the General Staff building to see masterpieces by great painters was educational as well as enjoyable. I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves.
Corner of the artist’s garden at Montgeron by Claude Monet, 1876
Dancer by Edgar Degas 1874
Count Lepic in Place de la Concorde, 1876
Roses and honeysuckle in a Delft vase by Pierre-August Renoir,1878
Portrait of the actress Jeanne Samary, Renoir, 1878
In the Garden, Renoir 1885
Self Portrait, Paul Cezanne, 1873
Mount Saint Victoire, Cezanne, 1895-1898
Smoker, Cezanne, 1890-1892
Tahitian Pastorals, Paul Gauguin, 1892
White House at Night, Vincent van Gogh, June 1890, shortly before his death
Bush, van Gogh, 1889
Struggle between a tiger and a bull, Henri Rousseau, 1908
The chapel in the General Staff building
A cross worn by a priest which saved his life during a battle. The bullet is lodged in the foot of the cross.
Woman with a fan, Pablo Picasso, 1907
Nude woman, Picasso, 1907
Frienship, Picasso, 1908
Dance of the Veils, Picasso, 1907
Absinthe drinker, Picasso 1901
Sunflowers in a vase, Henri Matisse, 1898
Red Room, Matisse, 1908
Dancers, Matisse
Portrait of the artist’s wife, Matisse, 1913
Black Square by Kazimir Malevich, said to be a seminal moment in art history. Took him 19 years to paint it, from 1913 to 1932
Against atomic death, Hans Grundig, 1958
Worker of a Hamburg shipyard, Heinrich Vogeler, 1928