Evening Light

Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, 1885-6 by John Singer Sargent, Tate Gallery, London.
While on a boat trip with his friend Edwin Austin Abbey Sargent saw some Chinese lanterns hanging and decided to use them in a composition.
"Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists." Marcel Proust

3 Comments:
Ah-HA! There's a wonderful short story by Kelly Link, in her Stranger Things Happen anthology, titled "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose." I had no idea the story title had any referent outside the story.
I will have to check it out - thanks.
Martha
Although you can buy the book through Amazon and other bookstores, it's also available for free download here.
Kelly Link's fiction is great. Her current collection, Magic for Beginners was picked by Time as one of the five best fiction books of 2005.
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