- B block: we talked about Max seeing Rose/Max seeing Sister; need to address — Max seeing father; Max seeing himself; How do others see Max?
- F block: have yet to discuss any groups' work
Final Discussion
- p. 220, Daniel says, "Let us never speak of this again." What does Daniel want to forget? Think literally and figuratively.
- p. 225: "And so my father's picture joined the other images in the lost museum of my mind."
- p. 227: "The will told me Rose was most likely in Paris, and I felt a vague unpleasant anger toward the dead. How often had my father been in contact with her during my decades of faithful silence? With what knowledge had he died."
- p. 231: "Did this mean that a son's love and grief for his father triumphed over all? Or that, in a moment of reckoning, I had seen and remembered nothing? I understood then that Rose had begun to bid only once I had stopped. She had been sent to Drouot's, or went of her own accord, in case I had forgotten what I would see there."
- p. 231: "The shimmering of the city was also part of the canvas: Matisse's lemons seemed to float above the table and the white plate on which they might have rested, if they had been given rest. It was a still life that had not been granted stillness. I thought of the dimensions of the painting, of its flat and hovering planes, and that somewhere, in between the two, lingered those whom I had lost."
Slides
37: This is the deportation list from
the Nazi files where Bertrand’s
family is listed---He is number 887. From the Holocaust archives in Paris. Page
212.
38: Page 222
39: Matisse’s Interiuer Jaune et Vert:
page 230
40: L-R: Omar Bradley, General Patton,
and Eisenhower in salt mine, examining looted artwork. Page 236.
41: Entartete Kunst
Exhibit page 237
42: Lucerne, Switzerland: Auction of “degenerate”
German art from before the war. Page 237.
43: Van Gogh auctioned at Lucerne
auction page 237
44: Picasso’s
Absinthe Drinker, auctioned in Lucerne: page 237
