Saturday 24 May Next Morning in Honfleur

We wanted to visit the Boudin museum, open 10 - 12 noon. He leads a small influential group of sea-side painters who pre-figure impressionism. Monet worked with him. But there's No Photography in the museum and the post cards are 1 euro each.

It's modern, large and well set-out. However, its web site is not that good. It does not have good images of the art works on display. We wanted to see the pre-impressionist's work. We did, but cannot show you images of them here. In fact many of Boudin's studio-finished works are in the National Gallery (er, in London). There's limited space in the gallery so there are themed displays that change periodically. Some modern pictures were on display, a Othon Friesz for example showing the burning of a Le Havre petrochemical plant in 1940 - a version of which is held by Gulf Oil!

 Here are a couple of Boudin pictures off of the web which don't really do his work justice, but they are Honfleur, I think.