The TuileriesMany of the Cezanne paintings that Hemingway would
have seen in Paris were housed in the Musee du Luxembourg. The works are now in the Musee d l'Orangerie which is located in the Tuileries garden by the Louvre. Hemingway loved to go the the museum to study the impressionist painters (especially Cezanne). He also liked to go to the Luxembourg gardens. He says:
"the best place to go was the Luxembourg gardens where you saw and smelled nothing to eat all the way from the Place de l'Observatoire to the rue de Vaugirard. There you could always go into the Luxembourg museum and all the paintings were sharpened and clearer and more beautiful if you were belly-empty, hollow-hungry."
This quote also sheds light on Hemingway's statement that hunger was a good discipline.
have seen in Paris were housed in the Musee du Luxembourg. The works are now in the Musee d l'Orangerie which is located in the Tuileries garden by the Louvre. Hemingway loved to go the the museum to study the impressionist painters (especially Cezanne). He also liked to go to the Luxembourg gardens. He says:
"the best place to go was the Luxembourg gardens where you saw and smelled nothing to eat all the way from the Place de l'Observatoire to the rue de Vaugirard. There you could always go into the Luxembourg museum and all the paintings were sharpened and clearer and more beautiful if you were belly-empty, hollow-hungry."
This quote also sheds light on Hemingway's statement that hunger was a good discipline.
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