FELIX VALLOTTON ~ RETURNED FROM THE BEACH
Felix Vallotton “Returned from the beach” 1924
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CHARLOTTE BRONTE ~ A FREE HUMAN BEING WANTING TO LEAVE
Rochester: “Jane, be still; don’t struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.” Jane: “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.” Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
SIR JOHN LAVERY ~ THE RED BOOK
Sir John Lavery (1856-1941), Miss Auras (The Red Book) Collection particulière
THE REAL ALICE ~ IN WONDERLAND
Alice Liddell, 1870 (Alice in Wonderland) Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879)
MARINA TSVETAEVA ~ ON BOOKS
“There are books so alive that you’re always afraid that while you weren’t reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?” ~Marina Tsvetaeva
ALFRED STEVENS ~ YOUNG WOMAN READING
Alfred Stevens (1823-1906) Jeune femme lisant, 1856
TAMARA DE LEMPICKA ~ KIZETTE IN RED
“Kizette in red” Tamara de Lempicka
ISAAC ISRAELS ~ READING GIRL ON A SOFA
“Reading girl on a sofa” 1920 Isaac Israels Dutch painter
ALFRED STEVENS ~ WOMAN SEATED IN ORIENTAL DRESS
“A woman seated in Oriental dress” by Alfred Stevens
