MORE PHOTOS: MY PARIS

See more MY PARIS photos on my 3 other blogs, with more to come this week. 

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MY PARIS: Blog

Paris has been one beautiful trip. We stayed in a small apartment in a private Hotel on the 5th floor with its own kitchenette, and windows opening on both sides, in the Marais. Les Progress Bar became our hangout, we often had dinner there, or sat on the street watching Paris go by, like a Fellini movie. Saw amazing old arcades in Galerie Montmartre, went to the Cimetiere des Chiens (cemetery for pets) and said a prayer for our Monty.
Saw the famous graves of Jim Morrison of the Doors, Oscar Wilde, Marcel Proust, Maria Callas, Chopin and Collette at Cimetire Du Lachaise (see photos on my other blog). Saw installation MONUMENTA at the Grand Palaise and also the wonderful dark exhibition of ODILON REDON in the gallery behind it. I have always loved Odilon Redon, and to see his early etchings right through to full color paintings and interior furnishings was amazing.
The Jean Louis Forain Exhibition at the Petit Palaise was beautiful. He was a forerunner to Lautrec.
Staying in the Marais, the 'gay' district, was wonderful. The life in the streets at all hours, on every corner a bar or cafe filled with beautiful Parisians socializing. I can't begin to explain how unique to Paris this is. Block after block of shops and galleries, and on weekends at night, it's just exhilarating to bar-hop, or try to get a good seat in a cafe, to watch the continual parade of life before you.

MY PARIS: Sacre Coeur gargoyle, Petit Palaise and MONUMENTA Installation at Grand Palais by Anish Kapoor

SEE MY OTHER BLOGS (click the blog image in left side column)  FOR MORE PHOTOS:  PARIS MARKET DOLLSHOP, PARIS HARDWARE SHOP WINDOWS, PARIS DISNEYLAND.

MY PARIS IN THE SPRING: Ephemera, Marilyn, Buick Riviera, Pugs, statues etc

The first photo is of a few of the things I found in old shops in Paris, Gitanes book mark of 30's busboy, vintage cigar box with top hatted character, Jean Louis Forain exhibition flyer and postcard L'Acrobate 1880,  Odilon Redon crow postcard from Exhibition, Rooster on 60's Disc Bleu cigarette box,  movie magazine
Cine-Miror from 1937,  rare original silent stars Rudolph Valentino and Ramon Navarro postcards, Marlene Dietrich in 'The Scarlet Empress' from 1939 Cine-Miror magazine. Marilyn Monroe in a window display and on train platform in Paris Metro, various comic Pug figurines in shop window,  Classic 70's American car the Buick Riviera, photos from around Paris of statues, famous landmarks, carved heads above doors etc.  

MODERN ART AT CENTRE POMPIDOU PARIS: My friend Alex with Otto Dix portrait 'The Journalist'

Today I went to the Centre Pompidou to see some of my personal favorite pieces of Modern Art by various famous artists. See also my other blog
http://morethingsthanaredreamtof.blogspot.com/ for my personal photos of a famous Paris Cemetery.