Yes, but the details are sketchy. I know it was some time after the Pyramid thingy opened. And, like most people who have seen it, what I took away was how small the painting is. I mean, really tiny.
Of course one has no way of knowing how big it ought to be, having seen only reproductions, and never bothering to read the dimensions. But some pictures are just much bigger than you think they’re going to be, and others — there’s a Picasso of a large woman — are surprisingly tiny.
Big question: why should seeing the real thing — badly — be so important?
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Why should seeing the real thing — badly — be so important?
Not even “seeing” it. I once read that a military museum had small-scale reproductions of the real planes that were hanging from the ceiling, so that blind people could touch them and feel their shapes. Still, blind people always asked for assurances that the real planes were hanging up above.
@Biopolitical – That is fascinating. There is definitely something about “the thing itself” that distorts perceptions. Like the re-attributions of all those Rembrandts. It changed their value, but did it change their status as works of art?