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  • Shadow of scents
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02.09.2018 Rrose Sélavy

Portrait de Rrose Sélavy en 1921, par Man Ray
Crossed paths

“This ambiguous effigy wearing a hat and string of pearls already had a name: Rrose Sélavy.” (Marcel Duchamp)

01.22.2018 A rose

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-1886), daguerréotype de 1846-47 (Amherst College).
Along the way

A poem from American poetess Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).

02.03.2017 Rosamund

Fair Rosamund, 1861 (Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828-1882), National Museum.
Along the way

Through the twists and turns of dream-like associations, Rosamund – Rosa Mundi – ended up being the name of a rose eternally associated with love.

01.30.2017 Defining the pink

The world’s pinkest Pink, Stuart Stemple
Crossed paths

Pink is full of ambiguity. This is an elusive colour.

01.09.2017 Sub rosa…

Écusson avec rose et glaive, placé au plafond, à Rhodes (© edlimphoto)
Along the way

The Rosa Mundi collection should not be mentioned sub rosa in anyway.

01.06.2017 Rosa Mundi

Papier dominoté Rosa Mundi.
Shadow of scents

The Rosa Mundi collection intently fuses many aspects of the story of diptyque, from illustrative and decorative arts to perfumery.

02.11.2016 Winter pink

A Corner of the Table by Ignace Henri Fantin-Latour with Rimbaud and Verlains
Along the way

In the winter, we shall travel in a little pink railway carriage…

02.08.2016 “Rose-fever”

"Pelleas et Melisande", 1927 (Erté, 1892-1990) (© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York)
Along the way

Claude Debussy’s opera “Pelléas et Melisande” would give the “rose-fever” to writer Marcel Proust.

01.18.2016 Rose of Eros…

Fleurs dans un vase en verre avec papillon et scarabée, sur un rebord en pierre (détail) - Nicolaes van Veerendael (1640-1691)
Along the way

It is Eros that rules the rose from the very outset and across all frontiers…

12.31.2015 The Rose and the Beast

La rose, dans La Belle et la Bête de jean Cocteau, sorti en salles en 1946.
Along the way

WIthout a rose, Beast would have never met Beauty, whom made him beautiful anew.

02.09.2015 Le Rose du Bleu

Le Rose du Bleu (RE 22) was auctioned for 23,561,250 GBP on 27 June 2012 -  a world record sale for a work of Yves Klein  - © Christie’s images
Along the way

Le Rose du Bleu: specialist of contemporary art at Christie’s, Paul Nyzam gives us a focus on the rose color (or pink) in the work of Yves Klein (1928 – 1962).

02.02.2015 Picasso’s rose period

Pablo Picasso - portrait de Gertrude Stein
Along the way

As a certain feast of a certain saint approaches, the fourteenth of a certain month, pink is to be celebrated…

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