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guillaume at the front of the musee picasso.

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we rode the metro to the st. sebastien froissart station and walked five blocks to musee picasso. we entered the large chateau. the docents pointed us upstairs. at the picasso the galleries start on the top floor and snake their way around the floors and down eventually to basements. the building was in outstanding shape, very unlike the shabby musee rodin.

picasso's works were presented in chronological order. his styles drifted through many periods. for me the most incredible room was one with works by contempraries which were part of his private collection. that was an incredible room, the works of picasso's peers. there were two stunning pieces by cezanne.

i viewed the works of picasso with a mixture of admiration and disgust. i've always been repelled by the loose morals of artists like picasso, with one mistress pregnant before divorcing his wife. he married four times and fathered children by three wives, a precursor of casual parental behavior in my generation.

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