Maurice De Vlaminck's "The Potato Pickers"?
Maurice De Vlaminck's "The Potato Pickers"?
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Well done, now you are supposed to post a painting.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
Fairly easy one:
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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It's vaguely familiar. It looks like a painting used for a book cover illustration.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
This artist mostly worked with female subjects but others paintings are not as... demure as this one.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Gustav Klimt
Lady with cape and Hat, Three Quarter View
1897/98
I was certain it was either Klimt or Munch having repeatedly run across the drawing in one of my books.
Our new mystery painting:
Last edited by stlukesguild; 09-18-2010 at 10:25 PM.
Beware of the man with just one book. -Ovid
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain
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Madonna and child by Marianne Stokes
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
Finally, I can figure one out!
Noel Coward "St Margarets Bay"
http://www.dover.gov.uk/museum/infor...__fleming.aspx
I immediately recognized the White Cliffs.
Give me a moment and i'll have one for you
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OK, here's the next one:
At the risk of being too obscure, I'll give you a clue up front.
The selection was inspired by another book cover.
EDIT - ...cover on a book that I finished a few weeks ago by a British author.
(The painter is not British)
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Last edited by Gilliatt Gurgle; 09-20-2010 at 01:35 PM. Reason: additional clues
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Two more from our mystery painter:
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Is it Dadd?
Oh hang on - he was British....
Scratch that.
I know the artist and know two additional pictures but haven't found the mystery picture title.
"Where love is there God is also".
Leo Tolstoy
Ilya Repin
Preparation for the Examination
Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom
Leo Tolstoy Barefoot
~ I cannot stand people who are not serious about food. It is so shallow of them. (Oscar Wilde)~
"Preparation for Examiniation" is the book cover image on my copy of "Under Western Eyes" by Joseph Conrad.
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More RussiansTime to pull out the esoteric American Minimalist Installation artists.
Beware of the man with just one book. -Ovid
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain
My Blog: Of Delicious Recoil
http://stlukesguild.tumblr.com/
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