Room 501

 From the opening of 'Picture Palace, The Making of the Louvre' by Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker, 10/26/20:

"What happens when we try to walk at night through museums we can no longer visit?  A range of online virtual tours provides the possibility, but apart from physical problems of reproduction -- the pixel reproduction is inadequate, the movement glitchy and twitchy -- the real difference is the loss of tactile and optical tension, the missing dialogue of aching feet and happy eyes.  ...  Reproductions reproduce, and they often do it well, but they can't reproduce the sex appeal of museum going, the carnal intersection of one physical object with another, you and it.  It's a thing, there; you, a thing, here." 

Be warned this is not a trip to MoMA.  This is me with a camera getting out during a pandemic to a place of beauty.

James Ensor "Masks Confronting Death' 1888

Odilon Redon ' The Masque of the Red Death' 1883

Odilon Redon 'The Well' 1880

Medardo Rosso 'Woman With a Veil' 1895

Georges-Pierre Seurat 'Evening, Honfleur 1886

Vincent Van Gogh, 'Portrait of Joseph Roulin' 1889

Edvard Munch ' Angst' 1896

 Edvard Munch ' Melancholy lll' 1902

Vincent Van Gogh ' The Starry Night' 1889

Paul Gauguin ' Portrait of Meijer de Haan' 1889

Edvard Munch 'Two Women on the Shore' 1898

Henri Rousseau, ' The Sleeping Gypsy' 1897

Paul Cezanne, ' Château Noir' 1903-04

Paul Cezanne, ' The Bather' 1885

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, ' M. de Lauradour' 1897

Paula Modersohn-Becker 'Portrait of a Peasant Woman' 1899-02 

Paula Modersohn-Becker 'Seated Old Woman' 1899-02

Paul Cezanne, 'Boy in a Red Vest' 1888-90

Edouard Vuillard, 'Interior, Mother and Sister of the Artist', 1893

Room 502 next.