How I Hate to Leave

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How I Hate to Leave
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How I Hate to Leave

Portfoliofrom the series "An Ode To (You)'all"
Date2022
MediumJacquard tapestry, Poly-fil, and rhinestones
Dimensions50 × 70 in. (127 × 177.8 cm.)
Credit LinePurchased as the gift of the Joshua Johnson Council in Honor of Christopher Bedford, Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director, 2016–2022; and Art Fund established with exchange funds from gifts of Dr. and Mrs. Edgar F. Berman, Equitable Bank, N.A., Geoffrey Gates, Sandra O. Moose, National Endowment for the Arts, Lawrence Rubin, Philip M. Stern, and Alan J. Zakon
Object number2022.265
NOT ON VIEW
Last Updated1/11/24
Image Not Available for Victorian Folding Fan and Box
Victorian Folding Fan and Box
1840-1860
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Earrings
Unidentified
1834-1859
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Resist #2
Mickalene Thomas
2021
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Flute
Heinrich Christian Eisenbrandt
1822-1857
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Hall Chair
Charles Alban Buckler
c. 1865
Image Not Available for Exploitation of love. Oh! My darling. I cannot say how much I admire, how much I caress the charming portrait which you sent me! You even had it embellished with precious stones. What folly!! You mustn't do things like that. It grieves me... And this watch chain. How beautiful it is! How richly decorated!!... I'd like to offer you a nice present in return, something to remind you of our love and happiness... I'd like to give you a lock of my hair...
Exploitation of love. Oh! My darling. I cannot say how much I admire, how much I caress the charming portrait which you sent me! You even had it embellished with precious stones. What folly!! You mustn't do things like that. It grieves me... And this watch chain. How beautiful it is! How richly decorated!!... I'd like to offer you a nice present in return, something to remind you of our love and happiness... I'd like to give you a lock of my hair...
1837
Image Not Available for The other day, I pulled off another smart trick... I had set up a firm with a capital of ten million francs to exploit top boots in cardboard ... I had placed only eight shares worth a petty 1200 francs... I called together my eight shareholders and held forth in something like the following manner: "Ah! Good-day ye strolling gentlemen, how handsome you are, how fine you seem!" I promised them more cheese than bread, I gave them a 50% dividend, I warmed them up a bit and let them simmer... The following day they couldn't get hold of my shares fast enough, I placed all of them and at the next meeting I said: "The last time I did the books I made a mistake. I forgot to take into account the price of the cardboard and its fabrication. You must return the dividend I gave you, I'm going to hold it back... I put down nothing and kept back the r
The other day, I pulled off another smart trick... I had set up a firm with a capital of ten million francs to exploit top boots in cardboard ... I had placed only eight shares worth a petty 1200 francs... I called together my eight shareholders and held forth in something like the following manner: "Ah! Good-day ye strolling gentlemen, how handsome you are, how fine you seem!" I promised them more cheese than bread, I gave them a 50% dividend, I warmed them up a bit and let them simmer... The following day they couldn't get hold of my shares fast enough, I placed all of them and at the next meeting I said: "The last time I did the books I made a mistake. I forgot to take into account the price of the cardboard and its fabrication. You must return the dividend I gave you, I'm going to hold it back... I put down nothing and kept back the r
1838
Image Not Available for Oh hello, how good to see you. - How is your wife? - Just fine. - I did not recognise you in the water… I took you for a lion! - Too kind of you. This is what everybody tells me.
Oh hello, how good to see you. - How is your wife? - Just fine. - I did not recognise you in the water… I took you for a lion! - Too kind of you. This is what everybody tells me.
1840
Image Not Available for My God! Monseigneur, I am forced to leave for the countryside, allow me to leave my wife behind to keep you company
My God! Monseigneur, I am forced to leave for the countryside, allow me to leave my wife behind to keep you company
1837
Image Not Available for Let's go away from here, guide, let's leave. I must have been out of my mind to leave Paris and travel 300 miles, just to stand over an abyss of 400 feet in the Pyrenees. Let's go away from here, guide, as fast as possible!
Let's go away from here, guide, let's leave. I must have been out of my mind to leave Paris and travel 300 miles, just to stand over an abyss of 400 feet in the Pyrenees. Let's go away from here, guide, as fast as possible!
1846
Image Not Available for Yes my uncle, my virtuous uncle, I was a spendthrift, gambler, seducer, I had many faults, in a word I was frivolous... but you're ill, very ill, the doctors have abandoned you... I've come to aid you, to fall at your feet, I'll swear... anything you like... I'll only leave you at death, my kind uncle, my so excellent uncle! Let's embrace and put an end to it. (Macaire, sole inheritor, has his dear uncle thrown into a common pit).
Yes my uncle, my virtuous uncle, I was a spendthrift, gambler, seducer, I had many faults, in a word I was frivolous... but you're ill, very ill, the doctors have abandoned you... I've come to aid you, to fall at your feet, I'll swear... anything you like... I'll only leave you at death, my kind uncle, my so excellent uncle! Let's embrace and put an end to it. (Macaire, sole inheritor, has his dear uncle thrown into a common pit).
1837
Image Not Available for Cleaning on the Street. - Leave me alone, you cretin!! Every time I go to the office I have to pass by here!... you have already ruined three suits, you thief!
Cleaning on the Street. - Leave me alone, you cretin!! Every time I go to the office I have to pass by here!... you have already ruined three suits, you thief!
1839