Flowers in a Crystal Vase Édouard Manet ca. 1882 oil on canvas 32.7 x 24.5 cm (12 7/8 x 9 5/8 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
The small paintings now have the lightness and softness of the watercolours of the admirable letters he sent to his women friends (of which some twenty are on view). These qualities are also to be found in the bouquets painted in spring of 1882, with which the exhibition comes to a close.
The flowers stand in crystal vases which permit us to see the tangle of stems as a kind of "backstage" view of the chromatic visions that bloom above the narrow neck of the vase. They proved to be Manet's farewell as he was to die a few months later.
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