After church yesterday we went to the exhibition at the Auckland Art Gallery. This is usually a chance to wallow or examine one's self in the light of their holdings of NZ artists, including usually some superb works bt Colin MacCahon, like The Fourteen Stations of the Cross [sorry I can't seem to get a ibgger image] that we spent most of our time at on the last visit. But this Sunday (and till Friday but you MUST hurry) there is a preview of the superb collection Auckland has been promised by Julian and Josie Robertso. The five works on show are all really interesting:

• Mère aux enfants à l'orange (1951) by Pablo Picasso
  
• La tasse (1911) by George Braque
• Espagnole (1922) by Henry Matisse
• Paysage à l'Estaque (1906) by André Derain
• Instrument masochiste (1933-34) by Salvador Dalí
  

One puzzle that I can't solve (though I don't think it is art related) is how I would translate "Mère aux enfants à l'orange. It is not just the shock to a system that remembers the 1970s when Caneton à l'orange (what the French I believe call Duck in Bigarade Sauce) was all the rage, but how to render the pair of "OF THEs" that got me going... still don't trouble yuorself with the French, if you are in Auckland do go see these five masterpieces (when will you get another chance like this?) and while there explore the NZ paintings too!

The cafe does good food, but I can't do a proper review as I am not drinking coffee for the moment :( the water was also good ;)