When we were at MoMA for the Magritte exhibit last month, we also roamed about a bit in another gallery, and there were two works (in two different rooms) that particularly caught my eye.
By chance -- if chance you call it -- both were by Peter Blume.
The first was a black and white drawing (pencil on paper) from 1934, entitled Iris and Pansies. I took note of the artist because I was struck by the appealingly old-fashioned photorealism of the drawing.
The next was a beautiful oil painting, Landscape with Poppies (1939). To my surprise and delight, it was also by this same mysterious artist.
But when I ran a google search on Peter Blume today, imagine my astonishment to realize that I had already discovered and loved another of his paintings back in April! Yes, he also painted The Rock (1944-48), a dreamlike and surreal work which I'd ogled at great length at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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