They came all the way from St Petersburg, Russia. Art Gallery NSW informed me months ago about it. So, I knew they were coming. I knew how how they were going to stay. What did I do? Waited till the last day of the exhibition to go and see it. Again! Missed my chance of getting the exhibition catalogue because they ran out. Again!
Masters of modern art from the Hermitage exhibition at Art Gallery featured quite a few notable artists such as Monet, Kandinsky, Matisse, Gauguin, Pissarro and Cézanne. It was a completely different set of paintings we didn’t see anywhere else.
My favourite one was Sketch for ‘Composition V’ by Wassily Kandinsky (below).
Here’s a gallery for the other paintings:
After not being able to buy the exhibition catalogue, we headed off to Bodhi to have vegan yum cha. We were lucky as they had a table outside for us even though we didn’t have a booking. And, as usual, the yum cha was delicious. Here’s what we had:
