The Lovers’ Chronicle 28 December – not to know – art by Félix Vallotton

28 December 2023 By Rhett 0 In Random

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag dedicated to his muse. Rhett

The Lovers’ Chronicle

Dear Muse,

grace, hope, faith

dare say, salvation

feelin’ indigenous

immersed in the verse

to feel you deserve

to be with someone

to know what it is

to love well,

to be well loved

somethin’

never understood

what time is it

to find out, to learn

to crawl above the past

nothin’ but sad ones
on this day
till now

i want to use the words,
joy and happiness
words i have never used
but they seem not enough
to convey where i am now

there must be better
words that can describe
these overwhelmin’ feelin’s

maybe these two
are all i need

with you

Pale Love Pale Rider

in the arms of the moment
forever mingles

“Make the same oath.”

always bold words,
with astonishment hear
the breath of faith

live so little
why this promise
impetus of hope
a vain challenge

“It is to know.”

an unyieldin’ voice
implacable
no escapin’

“There is no grace,
no hope, no faith
there is no salvation
no one for you
only words,
only verse!”

finally feel indigenous
immersed in the verse

“To make you feel
you deserve
to be with someone.”

deserve has got nothin’
to do with it

“What time is love?”

there is no time

to not know
what it is to love well
or to be well loved

somethin’
you will never
understand

why can i not
crawl above this

Félix Vallotton, Mon Portrait, 1897, oil on canvas, 58 x 47 cm, private collection

Today is the birthday of Félix Edouard Vallotton (Lausanne; December 28, 1865 – December 29, 1925 Paris); painter and printmaker associated with Les Nabis. He was an important figure in the development of the modern woodcut.

In 1899 Vallotton married Gabrielle Rodrigues-Henriques, a wealthy young widow with three children, and in 1900 he attained French citizenship.

Gallery

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La Paresse (1896).

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La Valse (1893),

Self portrait (20 years old), 1885, oil on canvas

La raison probante (The Cogent Reason), a woodcut from the series Intimités, 1898

The Laundress, Blue Room, 1900, Dallas Museum of Art

Ker-Xavier Roussel, Édouard Vuillard, Romain Coolus, Vallotton, 1899

La plage à Honfleur, 1919

Le Bois de la Gruerie et le ravin des Meurissons, 1917

Honfleur dans la brume (Honfleur in the Mist), 1911

The Bath, Summer Evening, 1892
The Mistress and the Servant, 1896, oil on board, 52 x 66 cm, private collection
La Chambre rouge, 1898, tempera on board
Cloud in Romanel, 1900
Three Women and a Little Girl Playing in the Water, 1907
Sunset, Orange Sky, 1910, Kunstmuseum Winterthur
Portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1907
Blooming Fields, 1912
La Blanche et la Noire, 1913
Landscape, 1918, oil on canvas
Alyscamps morning sun, 1920
Tulips, 1920
Blonde Nude, 1921, Städel
Marigolds and Tangerines, 1924, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art