Burg Gladbach, August 25, 2022
Brussels, September 7, 2022
Dear Michel,
Your wonderful postcard arrived safely, dated August 8, 2022.
It is just about a year ago, on August 11, 2021, that I first saw this version of Delacroix’s “Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement” in the flesh, led by a carpet as a primer in the exhibition “Picasso & Les Femmes d’Alger” at the Berggruen Museum in Berlin, in which they brought eight of the fifteen Picasso’s versions together: A, C, E, F, J, L, N, and O.
The fact that your postcard is pre-dated Montpellier June 22 [2022] when you could not have known that the enhanced photocopied notes would be put on view two days later at Alma Sarif in Brussels touches me a lot. It is as if friendship anticipates the facts!
The story here continues.
One could say Picasso brought his motive from Le Louvre, etc., as Delacroix brought his from Alger…
Amitiés, Olivier
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“Les hommes du pier” follows “Pollock Power” at Galerie Clages, Cologne and “Sauver la porte” at Alma Sarif, Brussels, both in 2022. It is Foulon’s third exhibition at the gallery.