tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-782138671916303805.post5690796154314155338..comments2024-02-22T13:05:16.015+01:00Comments on Norman Perryman: A Life Painting Music: My brush with Kandinsky, Magaloff & JosefowitzNorman Perrymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18390097415468653932noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-782138671916303805.post-62838394558928199392023-07-13T20:25:05.927+02:002023-07-13T20:25:05.927+02:00My wife as a teenager used to go to tea often at M...My wife as a teenager used to go to tea often at Madame Kandinska's chalet. Her father was the painter Raymond de Botton and they lived in Saanen, next to Gstaad. Other Russians that she knew in Gstaad at the time included Dmitri Nabokov. It was a village full of fascinating people at the time, Krishnamurti, Menhuin, Nathan Milstein, William F Buckley. It is a very different story to today. More recently of course Balthus lived nearby in his beautiful Grand Chalet in Rossiniere, and again she had tea with him at his home shortly before he died around 1999. Le Monde d'hier.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com