Lehman Wing at the Met

We spent much of the day at the Metropolitan Museum.  This separate wing houses the Lehman Collection--part of the Cezanne portrait show is visible on the right across the high atrium.

A number of wonderful exhibitions-- I'll just list them:

"Grand Design:  Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry," with over a dozen full-scale tapestries plus paintings, cartoons, etc.

Leonard Lauder's collection of Cubist works by Picasso, Braque, Juan Gris, and Leger:  some 90 items of superb quality.  

"Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical  Age" (over 260 objects from the first millennium B.C., on loan from museums in much of the world)

"El Greco in New York" (the Met's holdings with at least a dozen from the Hispanic Society)

Paul Cezanne: Portraits of his wife (over three dozen--wonderful), plus drawings and watercolors  (in the Lehman Wing)

The Winchester Bible (12th century, at least a half-dozen sheets)

Photographs by Thomas Struth (characteristically large scale)



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