I went to see Claude Monet's Water water lilies at the L'Orangerie in Paris and discovered downstairs an enormous private collection of Impressionist and leading modernist paintings. The Paul Guillame Collection takes up the entire ground floor at L'Orangerie and from humble beginnings he became one of the great collectors of art of his time. There is even a model of his former house with the works of art in place. Picasso, Cezanne, Renoir, Utrillo and Modigliani all feature.and I had the pleasure of discovering the bright and colourful Henri Rousseau (think David La Chapelle) the pastel's of Marie Laurencin (kind of like a Paolo Roversi photo), the fish-eye effect of Chaim Soutine the pure beauty of Andre Derain. http://www.musee-orangerie.fr/
