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Bundle of Asparagus: Edouard Manet

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Work Overview: Bundle of Asparagus
Edouard Manet
1880
Oil on canvas, 46 x 55 cm
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne

In the final phase of his career, already partly paralysed, Manet painted a number of small still-lifes, such as the Bundle of Asparagus, which became well known in Germany because Liebermann, a great admirer of Manet, once owned it. He also painted endless variations on the theme of flowers in vases. It is moving to look at these enchanting impressions of the loveliness of the natural world, given what we know of the advanced state of Manet's illness when he painted them.

The art patron Charles Ephrussi (1849 –1905), one of the Parisians on whom Proust based the character Swann, was deeply appreciative of contemporary painting, and agreed to buy from Edouard Manet the delightful still-life, topmost above, for 800 francs. So great was his pleasure in ownership, however, that he paid the artist 1000 francs for it.

Not one to miss the chance for a witty flourish, Manet swiftly sent Ephrussi a smaller painting, of a single asparagus, with a note to say that one had slipped from the bunch.

Both paintings may be viewed by the public, but not together. The mother painting is in the Walraff Museum in Cologne, the solitary asparagus in the Musee D’Orsay in Paris.

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