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| Édouard Vuillard Roses in a glass vase ca. 1919 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Édouard Vuillard Vase of flowers ca. 1930 pastel Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Édouard Vuillard Guelder roses and the Venus de Milo 1905 oil on cardboard Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Édouard Vuillard Flowers with Leda 1900-1901 oil on cardboard Philadelphia Museum of Art |
Bouquet of Roses in Sunlight
Say that it is a crude effect, black reds,
Pink yellows, orange whites, too much as they are
To be anything else in the sunlight of the room,
Too much as they are to be changed by metaphor,
Too actual, things that in being real
Make any imaginings of them lesser things.
And yet this effect is a consequence of the way
We feel and, therefore, is not real, except
In our sense of it, our sense of the fertilest red,
Of yellow as first color and of white,
In which the sense lies still, as a man lies,
Enormous, in a completing of his truth.
Our sense of these things changes and they change,
Not as in metaphor, but in our sense
Of them. So sense exceeds all metaphor.
It exceeds the heavy changes of the light.
It is like a flow of meanings with no speech
And of as many meanings as of men.
We are two that use these roses as we are,
In seeing them. This is what makes them seem
So far beyond the rhetorician's touch.
– Wallace Stevens (1947), published in Poetry (Chicago)
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| Édouard Vuillard Bouquet and mirror (Flowers in the salon) 1907-1908 oil on cardboard, mounted on canvas Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Édouard Vuillard Evening in the garden of the Alcazar ca. 1892-95 gouache and distemper on paper Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Édouard Vuillard Garden seen from above ca. 1900 oil on cardboard Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Édouard Vuillard Foliage - oak tree and fruit-seller 1918 distemper on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Édouard Vuillard La Cheminée 1905 oil on cardboard National Gallery, London |
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| Édouard Vuillard Woman in interior 1932 gouache with pastel, watercolor, and charcoal on paper, mounted on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Édouard Vuillard Under the trees 1894 distemper on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art |
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| Édouard Vuillard The Promenade 1894 distemper on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Édouard Vuillard The turning road at noon ca. 1930-37 pastel Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco |
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| Édouard Vuillard Across the fields ca. 1898-99 lithograph Philadelphia Museum of Art |