Flaming June
from Soak Up The Gravy by emperor penguin
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Flaming June is a painting by Sir Frederic Leighton, produced in 1895. It is widely considered to be Leighton's magnum opus, showing his classicist nature. It is thought that the woman portrayed alludes to the figures of sleeping nymphs and naiads the Greeks often sculpted.
Flaming June disappeared from view in the early 1900s and was rediscovered only in the 1960s.
In 2015 a remarkable study for Flaming June was discovered hanging discreetly behind a bedroom door in an English country mansion.
This was one of many extraordinary secrets to emerge from a 16th-century manor house owned by Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe until her death, aged 99, in 2014.
The heir, to his immense surprise, was her great-nephew Bamber Gascoigne, former host of University Challenge.
The Leighton drawing was particularly exciting. Simon Toll, Sotheby’s Victorian art specialist, said finding it behind the door of a small, dark anteroom off the duchess’s bedroom was “thrilling ... one of the most heart-stopping moments in my career”.
Flaming June disappeared from view in the early 1900s and was rediscovered only in the 1960s.
In 2015 a remarkable study for Flaming June was discovered hanging discreetly behind a bedroom door in an English country mansion.
This was one of many extraordinary secrets to emerge from a 16th-century manor house owned by Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe until her death, aged 99, in 2014.
The heir, to his immense surprise, was her great-nephew Bamber Gascoigne, former host of University Challenge.
The Leighton drawing was particularly exciting. Simon Toll, Sotheby’s Victorian art specialist, said finding it behind the door of a small, dark anteroom off the duchess’s bedroom was “thrilling ... one of the most heart-stopping moments in my career”.
lyrics
On a panel in a cupboard in a hidden room
In a mansion, a forgotten family heirloom
The lustre of the loss adjusters can’t dispel the gloom
She slumbers in a swoon
Flaming June
He’s coming in
She’s going out
She gives a shout
She’s like a lion.
He’s like a lamb
Can’t understand
Bird in the hand
He can’t stop crying
As they sat down to breakfast one day
The butler served divorce on a tray
Forgotten in a Battersea flat
He keeps the asking price in his hat
Flaming June
Sleeps ‘til noon
Calls the tune
Flaming June
Uniformed staff
Crystal carafes
No riff raff
Nothing could be finer.
Gone to the dogs
She popped her clogs -
Stuff catalogued.
Monogrammed china.
Thank god it isn’t me, say the neighbours
She hated sympathetic strangers
He didn’t mean to start an adventure
She locked herself away from the censure.
I don’t know much about art but I know what I like
Nothing abstract that a child could have done
The portrait of a lady with not a lot on
No-one comes to call on all
the endless afternoons
She slumbers in a swoon
Flaming June
In a mansion, a forgotten family heirloom
The lustre of the loss adjusters can’t dispel the gloom
She slumbers in a swoon
Flaming June
He’s coming in
She’s going out
She gives a shout
She’s like a lion.
He’s like a lamb
Can’t understand
Bird in the hand
He can’t stop crying
As they sat down to breakfast one day
The butler served divorce on a tray
Forgotten in a Battersea flat
He keeps the asking price in his hat
Flaming June
Sleeps ‘til noon
Calls the tune
Flaming June
Uniformed staff
Crystal carafes
No riff raff
Nothing could be finer.
Gone to the dogs
She popped her clogs -
Stuff catalogued.
Monogrammed china.
Thank god it isn’t me, say the neighbours
She hated sympathetic strangers
He didn’t mean to start an adventure
She locked herself away from the censure.
I don’t know much about art but I know what I like
Nothing abstract that a child could have done
The portrait of a lady with not a lot on
No-one comes to call on all
the endless afternoons
She slumbers in a swoon
Flaming June
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from Soak Up The Gravy,
released January 10, 2020
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