Thursday, October 10, 2024

Lanvin - Dalì - Manet - van Dongen

Jeanne Lanvin
Hat
ca. 1912
silk taffeta and hand-painted silk velvet
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Jeanne Lanvin
Evening Gown
ca. 1926
beaded silk crêpe
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Jeanne Lanvin
Evening Gown
1927
silk taffeta with sequins and embroidery
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Jeanne Lanvin
Wedding Ensemble
(jacket with train over dress)
ca. 1931
silk satin
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona

Salvador Dalì
Shirley Temple -
le plus jeune monstre sacré du cinéma de son temps

1939
gouache, pastel and collage on board
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Salvador Dalì
Objet scatologique à fonctionnement symbolique
1931
assemblage of found objects
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Salvador Dalì
Le Visage de La Guerre
1940
oil on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Salvador Dalì
Self Portrait
(for illustration to Roussel's Impressions d'Afrique)
ca. 1938
drawing
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Édouard Manet
Man wearing a Cloak
ca. 1852-58
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Édouard Manet
Portrait of Léon Leenhoff
ca. 1868
drawing
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Édouard Manet
Pears
1880
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Édouard Manet
Plum with Letter to Madame Guillemet
1880
ink, with watercolor
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Kees van Dongen
Le Doigt sur la Joue
ca. 1910
oil on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Kees van Dongen
Two Women at the Piano
1908
oil on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Kees van Dongen
Study of Seated Woman
ca. 1905
drawing
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Kees van Dongen
Woman applying Mascara
ca. 1920
lithograph and pochoir
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Have a Good Time

"We have brought you," they said, "a map of the country;
Here is the line that runs to the vats,
This patch of green on the left is the wood,
We've pencilled an arrow to point out the bay.
No thank you, no tea; why look at the clock.
Keep it? Of course. It goes with our love.

"We shall watch your future and send our love.
We lived for years, you know, in the country. 
Remember at week-ends to wind up the clock.
We've wired to our manager at the vats.
The tides are perfectly safe in the bay,
But whatever you do don't go to the wood.

"There's a flying trickster in that wood,
And we shan't be there to help with our love.
Keep fit by bathing in the bay,
You'll never catch fever then in the country.
You're sure of a settled job at the vats
If you keep their hours and live by the clock."

He arrived at last; it was time by the clock.
He crossed himself as he passed the wood;
Black against evening sky the vats
Brought tears to his eyes as he thought of their love;
Looking out over the darkening country,
He saw the pier in the little bay.

At the week-ends the divers in the bay
Distracted his eyes from the bandstand clock;
When down with fever and in the country
A skein of swans above the wood
Caused him no terror; he came to love
The moss that grew on the derelict vats.

And he has met sketching at the vats
Guests from the new hotel in the bay;
Now, curious, following his love,
His pulses differing from the clock,
Finds consummation in the wood
And sees for the first time the country.

Sees water in the wood and trees by the bay,
Hears a clock striking near the vats:
"This is your country and the hour of love."

– W.H. Auden (1931)