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Please Sept (Roses, Tulipes Et Lilas Dans Un Vase De Cristal), 2011 Ongoing, at the Celebration of Life for Devon Dikeou at Clyfford Still Museum, October 16, 2026; Restaged on the Occassion by the Artist’s Family as Per Her Wishes

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Devon Dikeou, Please Sept (Roses, Tulipes et Lilas Dans Un Vase de Cristal), 2011 Ongoing; C-Print of a Hand Blown Glass Vase and Fresh Flowers Arranged to Replicate One of the 16 Last Paintings Edouard Manet Painted Before Dying; 21 1/4” x 13 3/8”

Please is a photographic series recreating the last sixteen paintings that Edouard Manet painted as he was dying of syphilis. Manet’s sixteen paintings were diminutive in size and each depicted a bouquet of fresh flowers in glass vases. For the photographic series, each vase has been remade by hand by a glass blower, and each flower arrangement has been meticulously researched, reproduced, and replicated flower by flower, stem by stem, bloom by bloom and photographed in the same position that each rests in Manet’s original paintings. Further, the photographs have then been enlarged to the exact dimensions of the existing Manet paintings. For the exhibition the hand blown vases are displayed on plinths, empty and as objects in and of themselves. The blooms of the flowers used in the photo shoot have been dried and each bouquet’s filings have been placed in empty Pace Picante jars. The title is extrapolated from a Peter Schjeldahl’s essay, “Edouard Manet”, in which he describes the painter as a man who simply wanted to please the viewing public while at the same time tackling subjects as diverse or interconnected as the wealth, remembrance, love, sex, death, loss. The piece aims to play on ideas of “please”, both pleasure and its instructive salutation, at the same time it questions the roles of sponsor, collector, artist, viewer, context.

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Édouard Manet, Roses, Tulipes et Lilas dans un vase de cristal, 1881, Oil on Canvas

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