Left Bank Waltz

Have just returned from an exhilarating weekend in Canberra where I was invited, as part of the Masterpieces from Paris sunset series, to talk about my book Left Bank Waltz: the Australian Bookshop in Paris.

Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and beyond is a magnificent display of Post Impressionist paintings from Paris’ Musée d’Orsay which is closed for renovations. Some of the world’s best known paintings, from Monet, Cézanne and Van Gogh to Gaugin, Seurat and Vuillard, are on show and we are indeed fortunate because they seem to be better lit here than they were in the Musée d’Orsay and can be viewed from a closer distance so that the colours and the brush strokes leap out you and make you glad to be alive. It’s an experience not to be missed and already more than a quarter of a million visitors have visited the Gallery.

The exhibition runs from 4/12/2009 to 5/04/2010.