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The title is also a pun, as this type of dressing-table is also known as a vanity. The phrase "All is vanity" comes from Ecclesiastes 1:2 ("Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.") [1] It refers to the vanity and pride of humans. In art, vanity has long been represented as a woman preoccupied with her beauty.
Ellsworth Kelly, The Meschers, 1951, oil on canvas, 59 × 59 inches, Museum of Modern Art. Kelly was a pioneer of hard-edge painting in the 1940s and 1950s. Kelly's discovery in 1952 of Monet 's late work infused him with a new freedom of painterly expression: he began working in extremely large formats and explored the concepts of seriality ...
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