Self portrait with an orange background

Conte on paper approx 10" x 7" £35 British pounds plus postage & packing of £3.50 to UK; £7 to rest of world

I have seen so much art the last few days. I think you can see so much and then you have to absorb and reflect. This evening (many of the museums now open in the evenings and it is a superb time to go as most people are eating dinner or having pre-drinks) I was in the Museum of Modern Art at the Pompidou Centre. A wonderful exhibiton of Lucien Freud and their permanent collection of 1910-present day (I stopped looking at the sixties). The penultimate painting I studied was a Rothko - black and red. It helped to calm me down then on the opposite wall was an Ad Reinhardt totally black canvas. It was so soothing, suddenly the most wonderful thing, because it lets you soak back into yourself and paint the pictures and be the person you are. I knew it was time then to call it a day.