Word: barmaids
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...what did he paint during those final years? One last great painting, of a terminally bored barmaid surrounded by a maze of mirror reflections, A Bar at the Folies Bergere. And flowers: many of them exquisite little watercolors (a briar rose, a snail on a leaf) done with rapid, sketchy delicacy, with notes to their recipients, mainly his women friends, written on the same page. Nothing indicates how he was suffering. His love of life and of style was too strong. In their sweet, private brevity, these tiny notes combining script and image are among the most "Japanese" images...
...shame she wears the name Of a man that's locked and chained To a bottle that's destroyed all hopes and cares To the men with hungry eyes She works and hides her pride She's a barmaid in the honky tonk downstairs...