An extremely enjoyable performance of ‘The Comedy of Errors’ in the delightful Quercy village of Lherm in south-west France.

At the Caixa Forum in Madrid for the exhibition ‘Impressionists and Moderns. Masterworks from the Phillips Collection’. The Phillips Collection was founded by Duncan Phillips in Washington D.C. and contains an impressive collection of paintings from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century.

Honore Daumier ‘The Uprising’ (c.1848)

Paul Cezanne ‘Self-Portrait’ (1878 – 80)

Amedeo Modigliani ‘Elena Povolozky’ (1917)

Raoul Dufy ‘The Artist’s Studio’ (1935)

Pablo Picasso ‘Woman with Green Hat’ (1939)

Henri Matisse ‘Interior with Egyptian Curtain’ (1948)

The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza contains an amazing collection of art from thirteenth-century Italy to twentieth-century America. It is especially rich in Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Expressionist paintings.

Edouard Manet ‘Horsewoman, Full-Face’ (c.1882)

Paul Gauguin ‘Mata Mua (In Olden Times)’ (1892)

Natalia Goncharova ‘The Forest’ (1913)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner ‘Street with Red Streetwalker’ (1914 – 25)

Piet Mondrian ‘New York City 3’ (1940 – 42)

Savador Dali ‘Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second before Wakening Up (1944)

Also an opportunity to see two exhibitions being held at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, ‘Caillebotte, Painter and Gardener’ and ‘Caravaggio and the Painters of the North’.

Gustave Caillebotte ‘Oarsman in a Top Hat’ (1878)

Gustave Caillebotte ‘Self-Portrait at the Easel’ (1878 – 79)

Caravaggio ‘Boy Bitten by a Lizard’ (c.1595 – 96)

Caravaggio ‘The Sacrifice of Isaac’ (1603)

At The Prado, Madrid for ‘Bosch: the Fifth Centenary Exhibition’. The Prado’s own holdings are joined by paintings from museums around the world to present the largest collection of Bosch paintings ever seen together, commemorating the five hundredth anniversary of the artist’s death.

Jheronimus Bosch ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’ central panel (c.1490 – 1500)

Jheronimus Bosch ‘The Temptations of St. Anthony’ central panel (1500 – 05)

Jheronimus Bosch ‘The Last Judgement’ detail (c.1505 – 15)

Jheronimus Bosch ‘The Ship of Fools’ (c.1505- 16)

Jheronimus Bosch ‘Christ Mocked (The Crowning with Thorns)’ (c.1510)

Jheronimus Bosch ‘The Haywain’ central panel (c.1512 – 15)

Also an opportunity to see some favourite works from the Prado’s Permanent Collection:

Fra Angelico ‘The Annunciation’ (1430 – 32)

Rogier van der Weyden ‘The Descent from the Cross’ (c.1435)

Francesco de Goya ‘The Third of May, 1808’ (1814)

A wonderful flamenco performance at the famous Corral de la Moreria, Madrid

At the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid for the collection ‘The Irruption of the Twentieth Century: Utopias and Conflicts’.The collection tells the story of modern art movements from the end of the nineteenth century to the end of World War II.

Pablo Picasso ‘Woman in Blue’ (1901)

Robert Delaunay ‘Portrait of Tristan Tzara’ (1923)

Salvador Dali ‘Face of the Great Masturbator’ (1929)

Pablo Picasso ‘Guernica’ (1937)

Valencia Cathedral

Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar

Mudejar wall, Zaragoza Cathedral

At the Guggenheim, Bilbao for the exhibition ‘Windows on the City: The School of Paris, 1900 – 1945’, a collection of works executed in the French capital in the first half of the twentieth century, from Cubism to Orphism to Surrealism.

Pablo Picasso ‘La Moulin de la Galette’ (1900)

Georges Braque ‘Piano and Mandola’ (1909- 10)

Marc Chagall ‘The Soldier Drinks’ (1911 – 12)

Robert Delaunay ‘Tour Eiffel, rouge’ (1911)

Robert Delaunay ‘Circular Forms’ (1930)

R.I.P. Dave Swarbrick, a wonderful musician, who has died aged 75. Thanks for some fantastic memories with Fairport Convention.