A few pictures from our visit to the Norton Simon Museum today:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

Poor befuddled Adam!



Snaky conniving Eve! (Oh sure.)



Madonna and Child:



Early Renaissance Madonna and Child:



I think these bronze sculptures were by Renoir:



Outside in the Sculpture Garden:

[elleng]

1. Thanks for the museum trip, CalPeg!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. You're very welcome, my dear elleng!

It was just lovely...the rain had stopped and there were few people around. It was great.

[Solly Mack]

3. Nice shots! Thanks, Peggy!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. These are wonderful, Peggy, beautiful subjects and so clear...

Thanks so much for sharing these! Looks like you had a worthwhile trip...

[Cooley Hurd]

6. Rec'd. Very nice pics!

[mnhtnbb]

7. Did you know that the Adam and Eve

have been the subject of litigation--just like the Woman in Gold--for years?

From a NY Times article:


Even in the United States, several legal experts and Jewish groups complain that some American museums have failed to live up to promises to settle claims based on the merits, a charge vigorously denied by art institutions.

The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, for example, has spent years fighting Marei von Saher, the heir of a noted Dutch Jewish art dealer who fled after the Nazis invaded the Netherlands. She is trying to reclaim two prized paintings of Adam and Eve by Lucas Cranach the Elder.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/arts/design/the-story-behind-woman-in-gold-nazi-art-thieves-and-one-paintings-return.html

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Indeed, I did know, and that litigation was one of the reasons we went!

I wanted to get good pictures of them before they disappeared!

The folks at the Museum pooh-poohed the possibility that the pictures will be gone anytime soon.

Thanks for the link!