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French Post-Impressionist Édouard Vuillard becomes the author's new favourite artist
I officially have a new favourite artist. Allow me to introduce the French Post-Impressionist Édouard Vuillard (1868−1940)
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Tchaikovsky's Musical Autograph
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Painting after the Ovruch cathedral frescoes, set beside Matisse's “Dance” and Ivanov's study
Boys at Play, Kuzma Sergeyevich Petrov-Vodkin, 1911. Dedicated to the memory of Mikhail Vrubel and Valentin Serov. The painting was made after the frescoes for the Cathedral of St Basil of the Golden Roof in Ovruch, among which was the biblical subject of Cain and Abel. Note the stone
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Edith Piaf at the window of her last home on Boulevard Lannes in the 1950s
Édith Piaf at her last home on the Boulevard Lannes. 1950s
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King George V in Infancy
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A Hundred-Year-Old Rhododendron and the Woman Who Tended It All Her Life
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If Beethoven is a miracle among men, Bach is a miracle among the gods
The Italian composer Gioachino Rossini
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Bertolucci, asked about reincarnation, recalled a poem by Borges: "the fish lives in the ocean, and a man remembers that he was once a fish"
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Marlene Dietrich at a party in New York in 1967, aged 66
Marlene Dietrich in 1967. A photograph from a party in New York: the diva is 66
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The Writing Desk in Dostoevsky's Flat
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Wind blows up the skirt of Queen Elizabeth II in a black-and-white photograph
Queen Elizabeth II. The wind lifts her skirt
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Photograph by Alexander Rodchenko, 1926, showing men seated at a table
Morning in the Flat of Vladimir Mayakovsky and the Briks in Gendrikov Lane. Photograph by Alexander Rodchenko, 1926