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Friends something I see more and more of these day are pink walls. When I painted our upstairs hall Pink Prism by Behr Paint in 2018 I was ahead of many embracing this color. I’d already painted our primary bedroom Vienna Lace in 2013. I’m loving all the different tones I see. I hope these images inspire you to bring pink into your home too.

Pink covers oh so many hues. I know on Farrow and Ball Setting Plaster doesn’t look pink but, is incredibly popular and Benjamin Moore Boudoir is a great dupe for it!

Chelsea Handegan is an interior designer and has a custom color in her Charleston living and dining rooms. She wanted a shade that had brown in it.

Just a few options here. You can go as bubble gum or as beige as you like.

Til next time friends be well and I’ll see you over on the Gram!

Hello friends I do love to share my visits to The Metropolitan Museum of Art I was there with my sister to view Sargent & Paris during the members preview.

Our first stop was The Charles Engelhard Court—South End in the American Wing to view the Tiffany Garden Landscape Widows.

Before entering European Paintings on the second floor we stopped at Gallery 704 and I love anything George Washington - so I snapped this image.

I loved the dress in this painting by Elisabeth Louise Vigee La Brun entitled: Comtesse de la Chatre 1789 in Gallery 632

We enjoyed a delightful lunch in the Balcony Lounge before heading to view the amazing Sargent & Paris.

This amazing exhibit examines the career of painter John Singer Sargent (1856–1925). He arrived in Paris in 1874 at age 18 through to his painting of the scandalous Madame X in the mid 1880’s. During this time Sargent cemented his career as an accomplished portraitist. He also experimented with different styles of painting.

Self Portrait, 1886 age 30

This painting In the Luxembourg Gardens has a luminescence - the water sparkles. Both my sister and I were smitten and made sure we picked up notes cards with this image at the end of the exhibit.

This lady is: Madame Ramone Subercaseaux and every detail is magic!

The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit draws you in by the sheer size.

This work A Gust of Wind has an other worldly quality. Sargent was so talented he could paint in a multitude of styles. This reminded both my sister and I of Monet.

This video installation showing what is was like for Sargent to exhibit in the Paris Salon - Art hung floor to ceiling regardless of the subject. This was really cool - the pictures populate, disappear and finally show in full color.

An entire room is dedicated to Madame X - filled with paintings, photographs, and studies/sketches of young socialite Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau. The detail on the right shows the fallen shoulder strap which was the original design. The painting itself was scandalous; so much exposed skin. This work was not a commission. She intrigued him. Her mother asked Sargent to please repaint the strap. Sargent eventually did repaint the strap and he kept the painting for thirty-two years.

From the Met: On January 8, 1916, John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) offered to sell his masterpiece Madame X to the Met. Writing from his home in London to his longtime friend and Met Director Edward "Ned" Robinson, Sargent explained, "my portrait of Mme. Gautreau is now . . . at the San Francisco exhibition, and now that it is in America I rather feel inclined to let it stay there if a Museum should want it. I suppose it is the best thing I have done. I would let the Metropolitan Museum have it for £1,000."

A Photographic Study.

Madame Gautreau Drinking a Toast, 1882-1883. I knew this work was familiar - we viewed it last summer in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau

Claude Monet was a great friend and here you see he and his future wife Alice in Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood

This is of artist Ernest-Ange Duez. I knew I’d viewed the work before because it’s part of the permanent collection of the Montclair Art Museum.

I always try and grab an image overlooking the Petrie Court.

The weather was glorious on our way to our next stop.

We headed to Bemelmans Bar. Nothing better than a Pisco Sour and live music surrounded by wonderful artwork to close our our fabulous day in the City.

The Met had this book which I already own Sargent The Masterworks in the gift shop of the exhibit. It’s a wonderful book filled with tons facts and amazing images. I highly recommend. It’s a coffee table book and more!