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It was a wonderful day, the sun was shining bright!
I walked through the Bois de Boulogne, it felt a little desolate and scary, but then I emerged on the other side in front of the shiny and voluminous Fondation Louis Vuitton where there was an exhibition of Egon Schiele and Jean Michel Basquiat. Schiele sadly left me underwhelmed, I did not leave with the same feeling of awe I had after seeing the works at Vienna's Leopold Museum - lower ceilings, beautiful ornate awnings and deep coloured cloth walls. Basquiat showed his prolific life as a painter and how he depicted African American culture. He died young, as did Schiele, but that was all they really had in common apart from being figurative artists
‘Riding with Death’ was my favourite Basquiat work, painted in 1988, depicting New York during this period. Many people were ravaged by AIDS and drug addiction – his friend Andy Warhol had died the year before
Paris Internationale art fair was full of good surprises! At Project Native Informant I loved the work of Kenneth Bergfeld ‘Androgynous Angel’, 2015. An artist who is exploring gender
Neal Jones was great! New paintings and handmade things
I loved the work of Urara Tsuchiya at Union Pacific
At Emalin I was introduced to the artist Evgeny Antufiev
Some scary things were going down at Isabella Bortolozzi who was showing work by Veit Laurent Kurz. Many creepy figures all over the wood paneled room
The treat for me was seeing some lovely paintings by Michael Fullerton. This work ‘Daddy in Jail (Imaginary Portrait of David Hume)’ stood out
Then finally the highlight was visiting Picasso at the Musée d'Orsay
