This past Sunday, my husband and I planned a trip to a museum. Deciding to visit the
Liege Fine Arts Museum (BAL) or in French, Musee des Beaux Arts de Liege (BAL). The museum is found on Rue St-Georges near
La Batte (the Sunday Market). We arrived just after opening, but looked for the entry. Sadly, it was not well marked and we walked all around the building twice before finding the entry. There were signs, I guess we weren't looking in the right place! The following photos are those of the entrance sign and stairs. Look for the small BAL signs with arrows and follow your way up these stairs. If you need an accessible entrance, it is on the opposite side of the building (basically around the block).
There were a few highlights of the museum. For us, we particularly enjoyed seeing a Picasso... We saw
La Famille Soler, one of Picasso's early paintings, at the time he was penniless. You can read more at the link
here . (If you are using google chrome, you can easily translate the page by clicking on the two overlapping squares at the far right of the text box.)
The images below show the Soler family with their dog preparing for a picnic of rabbit and wine.
I was also quite drawn to this image...
Of course I realized quickly it was called, Charles Edouard Jeanneret dit Le Corbusier. Violon verre et bouteille, 1925. Realizing that Charles Edouard Jeanneret is the birth name for Le Corbusier I understood why I was interested in this painting. Corbusier, is my favorite architect and now I have been lucky enough to see one of his paintings in person. I looked online for information on this specific painting only finding another blogger to post information
here. The painting does have some similarities to the cubist paintings found in multiple places around the internet such as the blog, the
Book of Days Tales and at the
Introspective Magazine.
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