A Symphony in Smoke: Una giovane coppia fresca della prima guerra mondiale si vede fumare armoniosamente insieme mentre si rilassano in un albero, l'uomo che si rilassa contro un ramo e la donna che oscilla in un'amaca di seta mentre tiene un breve romanzo e un ombrellone giapponese. Acquerello dipinto del marzo 1916 da Muriel L Platt, artista britannico.
11400 x 9120 px | 96,5 x 77,2 cm | 38 x 30,4 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
4 marzo 1916
Ubicazione:
(painted) Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK
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Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK: ‘A Symphony in Smoke’ … a cool young couple of the First World War era smoke as they relax in the branches of a tree, in an original watercolour painted in March 1916 by a British artist, Muriel L Platt. The painting was apparently inspired by a poem with the same title published in a late-1800s edition of the American weekly fashion magazine, ‘Harper’s Bazaar’. It then reappeared in ‘Pipe and Pouch - the Smoker’s Own Book of Poetry’, an anthology compiled by Joseph Knight and published in the US in 1895. The verse centres on a “pretty, piquant, pouting pet” named Violet, taking her ease in a silk hammock with a Japanese parasol, a novelette and a cigarette, but makes no mention of the male smoker seen reclining against a tree branch. The poem reads: A SYMPHONY IN SMOKE A pretty, piquant, pouting pet, Who likes to muse and take her ease, She loves to smoke a cigarette; To dream in silken hammockette, And sing and swing beneath the trees, A pretty, piquant, pouting pet. Her Christian name is Violet; Her eyes are blue as summer skies; She loves to smoke a cigarette. As calm as babe in bassinette, She swingeth in the summer breeze, A pretty, piquant, pouting pet. She ponders o'er a novelette; Her parasol is Japanese; She loves to smoke a cigarette. She loves a fume without a fret; Her frills are white, her frock cerise, A pretty, pouting, piquant pet. She almost goes to sleep, and yet, Half-lulled by booming honey-bees, She loves to smoke a cigarette. A winsome, clever, cool coquette, Who flouts all Grundian decrees, pretty, pouting, piquant pet, That loves to smoke a cigarette. We have no information on the artist, Muriel L Platt, beyond the fact that she lived at the time in Heaton, a suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England. D1158.B3829
