Sunday, June 01, 2025

Missing out on Satie artifacts

I've already complained about missing out on Suzanne Valadon's art when I was in France, but now I'm even more annoyed because what they had at the Centre Pompidou exhibition is exactly what I wanted to see most of all. Here is a still image from a Youtube video called Pompidou Metz exposition Suzanne Valadon with the portrait of Satie by Valadon, then in the center, a sketch of Valadon by Satie, and then on the right, the "Chere petit Biqui" letter which I've written about before. 

DAMN I would have been so happy to see these items while I was in Paris. And the exhibition opened a mere two weeks after I left Europe. If I had known this exhibition was coming up, we could have gone to France a month later. 

Maybe the exhibition will go on tour and come to the US? They had a Valadon show at the Barnes Foundation in 2021, but they didn't have these items in it.



I got a closeup of the letter from the video. But damn that Satie and his fancy calligraphy, it's very hard to read, especially at this angle.