I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly. You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.
Vita Sackville West, from a letter to Virginia Woolf dated 21 January 1926. (via zipitrudolph)
Édouard Vuillard (French, Post-Impressionism, 1868-1940): Evening Effect. Pastel, 31.6 x 30.8 cm (12.44 x 12.13 inches). Private Collection. (Located no further details.)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - Marcelle Lender Dancing the Bolero in the Operetta ”Chilpéric”, 1896. Oil on canvas, 145 x 150 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA