Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Flowering Garden: Willy Pogany’s Rubaiyat
A small figure stands beside a low garden wall beneath an enormous tree covered in pale blossoms. Pink, yellow and green touches dissolve the foliage into a softly luminous canopy. Willy Pogany’s illustration for the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam gives the human presence a modest scale against this abundance. The light colour and blurred edges make the flowering tree the scene’s principal event.
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Willy Pogany. "The Flowering Garden: Willy Pogany’s Rubaiyat" [editorial title]. In Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Omar Khayyam; translated by Edward FitzGerald; illustrated by Willy Pogány. Illustrated edition, 1909, 1909, T. Y. Crowell & Co.. Source scan leaf 15. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0124-0012
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The title page identifies Willy Pogany as the illustrator. Descriptive titles identify the visible subjects of the selected colour plates.
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Rubaiyat of Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam; translated by Edward FitzGerald; illustrated by Willy Pogány1909More from this book
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Willy Pogany. The Flowering Garden: Willy Pogany’s Rubaiyat. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Scan leaf 15. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0124-0012