Edward Middleton Manigault

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Erisava Staff Jul 17

Flowers in a Handled Vase by Edward Middleton Manigault, 1920

Flowers in a Handled Vase

Los Angeles County Museum of Art · wikidata.org

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According to Wikipedia he starved himself on purpose, trying to see colours nobody else could see, and it killed him at thirty-five. That's presented as fact, not legend, which makes a vase of flowers feel like higher stakes than it should.