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| Édouard Vuillard Deux ouvrières dans l'atelier de couture 1893 oil on panel National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Édouard Vuillard La chambre rose ca. 1910-11 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Édouard Vuillard La causette 1893 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Édouard Vuillard La cuisinière 1899 lithograph Philadelphia Museum of Art |
Recipe for an Ocean
in the absence of the sea
You have the ingredients on hand.
Get to the edge of something,
yourself best of all, and take
yourself in hand. Take, I mean, your hand,
trace out the blue menaces
released and lapsing there,
watch closely around the wrist: they will
remind you what you must do.
They are what you must do. Be
them, until there is nothing but them,
then you are ready. Now take
time, all there is in the house –
it does not have to be yours. Take time
and never for a moment
losing track of what changes
back into yourself, bitter enough
so that you will need almost
no salt, mix well and then leap
over the edge. Wait there. When you can
wait no longer, it is done.
Serve at once. It does not keep.
– Richard Howard, from Findings (New York: Atheneum, 1971)
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| Édouard Vuillard Le pot de fleurs ca. 1900-1901 oil on panel National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Édouard Vuillard Nude in the studio before 1939 pastel Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Édouard Vuillard Nature morte au bougeoir ca. 1900 oil on panel National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Édouard Vuillard Marguerite Chapin in her apartment with her dog 1910 oil on panel Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Édouard Vuillard La liseuse au coussin ca. 1905 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Édouard Vuillard Femme lisant 1909 distemper on paper, mounted on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Édouard Vuillard Femme assise, tasse de café 1893 oil and tempera on cardboard Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Édouard Vuillard Pot de grès et fleurs 1909 oil on paper, mounted on panel Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Odilon Redon Portrait of Édouard Vuillard 1900 lithograph British Museum |
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| Édouard Vuillard Le petit manteau ca. 1891 drawing National Galleries of Scotland (presented anonymously to the museum in memory of Vivien Leigh) |