Sound the art klaxon...

Playlist

Françoise Hardy - In Vogue

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Four Last Things

Max Richter - from Sleep

Various Composers - Barytonmusik des 18. Jahrhunderts

Various Composers - Italian Baroque Concertos

Beethoven/Brahms/Von Krufft - Horn Trio; Horn Sonatas

Jeroen Van Veen - Einaudi: Waves The Piano Collection

Mozart/Brahms - Quintets

Various Composers - The Sunday Times Modern Classics

Bartók & Lutosławski - Concertos For Orchestra

Various Composers - Radio 3 New Generation Artists

Max Richter - Memoryhouse

Grand Funk Railroad - Epic Grand Funk Railroad
Jean-Francois Paillard - Pachelbel/Fasch

Final day, and there was some light rain as I went for breakfast provisions...

...which, by the time I got back, precluded a last use of the balcony...

Not to worry...

We left the apartment...

...as we had found it...

...and took the tram to Gare St Jean to leave our case at left luggage for just seven and a half of your European Euros...

...then, took a couple of trams back to the Musee des Beaux Arts to spend an enjoyable 90 minutes...

It's not a huge collection but I seem to have managed to depict it in almost its entirety here - apologies if you're not an art lover - sound the art klaxon!

I liked the beast on the left in this one...

Rock star of the day...

David with Goliath's head...

Reminds me of someone but just can't place the face...

Watch out for those pesky snakes...

What's that black dot?

A cheeky wee fly - symbolising death, of course...

Good light...

Wait, what?

The miracle of St Justsus by Rubens, 340 years before Alice Cooper...

Vanitas by Gijsbrechts...

Anne's favourite in this wing...

"The Four Doctors of the Church" by Abraham van Diepenbeek...

Neptune - with horse...

More music...

Even youngsters were finding it interesting...

"A view of part of the port and docks at Bordeaux" by Pierre Lacour...

The original "we're not worthy" - Taillason's "Hero et Leandre"...

This looked like niece Kitty...

Poor old lion being looked after by hares...

Bad dogs...

"This might hurt just a little"...

Do you see the cheeky wee cat?

Do you see the cheeky wee lady?

Portrait of a man with a big book...

Some religious stuff...

Superb colours...

As with classical music, I seem to enjoy early and contemporary works the most, with no real enthusiasm for the romantics...

To the second wing, with "newer" works,..

Including a goodly amount of sculpture...

This was amazing...

Eugene Isabey's "Fire on board the steamer Austria"...

...and this, directly opposite, also much impressed...

Theodore Gudin's snappily entitled "The Act of Heroism Made by Captain Desse, from Bordeaux, Towards the Dutch Ship, Columbus"...

Who's this?

It's Herr Mozart apparently...

Sculptures of expiring composers were a bit of a thing back in the day it seems...



"Romantic Landscape with a Figure" by Bonheur...

Said "figure"...

Liked this one too - Anatole de Beaulieu's "The Duel. Old Battery of Goalennec. Memory of an Encounter"

and Jean-Paul Laurens' "The Pope and the Inquisitor" featuring old chums Sixtus IV and Torquemada...

Another of my favourites was this, which almost has a photographic quality to it, Princeteau's not very attractively entitled "Cows Carrying Manure"...

An unfinished painting of horses...

...featured in this portrait of the artist at work in her studio...

Barrias' "Nature Reveals Herself to Science" - dirty girl...

A Renoir...

A Bordeaux view by strangely named Frenchman, Alfred Smith...

A Rodin...

This was also extremely well executed...

It could almost be a photograph - Eugene Buland's "The Heirs"...

And the quality just kept on coming...

These two were faves - for their otherworldliness - Edgar Maxence's "The Book of Peace"...

...and the wonderfully named Gaston Schnegg's "Jeanne with a White Dress"...

A cheeky wee wink from Albert Marquet...

There was a surfeit of works by Andre Lhote...

His cubist work is impressive..

A Braque - "Still Life with Basin"...

The works of Ossip Zadkine...

...included an impressive bust of one of my favourite French writers, Francois Mauriac

...created from photographs following the Russian artist's exile to New York...

A Picasso, don't you know...

"Olga Reading"...

This was a favourite too, Henriette Lambert's "Change of Scene"...

Anne couldn't understand how Jean-Paul Riopelle could have called this "Snowy Owl"...

That's artistic license for you...

This is not Piet Mondrian - it's Jean Gorin...

Anne had a good look round...

...and declared this statue her favourite of the wing...

Pablo Gargallo's "Female Dancer"...

Back out into the on again off again light rain...

Along Victor Hugo...

Down St Catherine to OCD where discs by John Surman, Joachim Kuhn and Soft Machine were purchased...

...before heading to Place Fernand Lafargue via Eloi Church...

...for a  drink at Apollo...

...then to Santosha, for our last meal of the trip...

I did not need this very hot sauce...

...as this excellent Thai fayre was quite spicy enough, thank you very much...

A final walk down to the bridge...

...and a tram back to St Jean for the case...

...and a No 1 bus to the airport...

The last view of Bordeaux was apt...

Arrived a little early, around 5pm for our 7:45pm flight...

Not to worry...

Coffee sustained as did music and reading...

Anne likes a queue...

Out on to the tarmac at 7:25...

Don't think this guy made the flight...

Take off...

During...

Landing...

...and, an hour later, we were home...

...and this came up...

...and these were behind the door...

No work till tomorrow...

What a great trip...

Highlight of the Day : Musee des Beaux Arts...