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The Impressionists ...
“Just look at that ceiling”, I said to K as we sat eating warmed goats cheese tartlets with black figs, grapes and baby mushrooms.
Above us Edward Middleton Barry’s ornate columns rose up to support the central octagon of the Barry Rooms at The National Gallery.
Before we’d sat down to dinner I’d been treated to a private viewing of the Impressionist collection where I’d surprised myself with what I knew and didn’t disgrace myself by mentioning The Thomas Crown Affair.
There’s something very special about being in a place that you have known and visited many times when it is closed. Suddenly you are free to see the mosaics in the floor (and notice the public house in one of them), to walk back and admire a Monet from a distance, to be the old person in front of Vincent’s sunflowers or to be able to talk to your own personal guide about Cézanne.
Of course the Domaine Dominique Roger Sancerre 2007. Chateau Paveil de Luze Cru Bourgeois Margaux and Mataro Alella Bodegas Alta Alella also helped to make the evening very, very special…
