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This was taken from the top of the Centre Pompidou coming out of the Matisse exhibition. I had bought a ticket on Internet but when we arrived at about 3.30pm (a very bad time) the queue for the exhibition was so long! We visited the permanent exhibitions and at 6 pm there was no queue. We were disappointed at the Matisse exhibition, there were not many paintings and we were out in 40 minutes - luckily: I was in time to take a photo of the beautiful sunset behind the Eiffel Tower.

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This is a reconstruction of a room in the Elysée palace which was commissioned by Pompidou, who with his wife, loved modern art. It is by Yaacov Agam (b. 1928) an Israeli sculptor and experimental artist best known for his contributions to optical and kinetic art - amazing!