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Thursday, April 29, 2021

MASTERPIECE #2697


 













Alexander Pock, Austrian

"The Way I See It, You've Got Two Choices: Take Me For a Walk, or Spend the Rest of Your Night Googling 'How To Get Stains Out of a Down Comforter,'" 1932

Oil on canvas 

posted by Steve Melcher @ 4:44 PM   0 Comments

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

MASTERPIECE #2696


 













Guy Pène du Bois, American

Deleted Scene on the "Annie" DVD: Daddy Warbucks and Miss Hannigan Get It On, ca. 1919

Oil on panel

posted by Steve Melcher @ 6:53 PM   0 Comments

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

MASTERPIECE #2695


Harue Koga, Japanese

Preview of the Tokyo Olympics, Where the Biathlon and Show Jumping Events Will Be Combined, 1931

Oil on canvas

posted by Steve Melcher @ 6:22 PM   0 Comments

Monday, April 26, 2021

MASTERPIECE #2694










Franz Gailliard, Belgian

"Okay, I'm Going To Get Back In the Cart Now, Honey -- And I Don't Want To Hear Any More Crap About Your 'Bad Back,'" 1888

Oil on panel

posted by Steve Melcher @ 6:39 PM   0 Comments

Sunday, April 25, 2021

MASTERPIECE #2693


 













Follower of William McGregor Paxton, American

Winner of Best Actress (Adult or Foreign Film) Realizing She Totally Forgot To Thank Her Butt Double, Date Unknown

Tempera on panel

posted by Steve Melcher @ 5:58 PM   0 Comments

Thursday, April 22, 2021

MASTERPIECE #2692

Henry Caro-Delvaille, French

Whistler's Mother Giving Manicures To Supplement Her Social Security, ca. 1901

Oil on canvas

posted by Steve Melcher @ 6:14 PM   0 Comments

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

MASTERPIECE #2691


 













Gebhard Fugel, German

Former King of Bavaria, David von Lëttermän, ca. 1917

Oil on canvas

posted by Steve Melcher @ 6:49 PM   0 Comments

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

MASTERPIECE #2690


Isaak Brodsky, Soviet 

Stalin Doing a Kelly Clarkson Medley at Kremlin Karaoke Night, 1933

Oil on canvas

posted by Steve Melcher @ 7:12 PM   0 Comments

Monday, April 19, 2021

MASTERPIECE #2689


 













Ralph Hedley, English

"Gosh Darn It. I Guess That Instruction Manual Must Have Been In Feet, Not Inches," 1896

Oil on canvas

posted by Steve Melcher @ 6:20 PM   0 Comments

Sunday, April 18, 2021

MASTERPIECE #2688


Giulio del Torre, Italian

"Behavior Problem" Jason Bourne On the Playground, 1927

Oil on panel 

posted by Steve Melcher @ 11:16 PM   0 Comments

Thursday, April 15, 2021

MASTERPIECE #2687















Harold Harvey, British

"Honey, Come Back! You Forgot Your Underpants!," ca. 1902

Oil on canvas

posted by Steve Melcher @ 6:36 PM   0 Comments

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

MASTERPIECE #2686


George Bellows, American

Why Front-Row Seats at Boxing Matches Are the Cheapest, 1924

Oil on canvas

posted by Steve Melcher @ 7:34 PM   0 Comments

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

MASTERPIECE #2685


Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, English

"Romeo and Juliet" (the Version Where Romeo Has a Kite), Date Unknown

Oil on canvas

posted by Steve Melcher @ 7:34 PM   0 Comments

Monday, April 12, 2021

MASTERPIECE #2684


William McGregor Paxton, American

The Artist's Wife, Just Before She Was Asked To Leave the Nordstrom's, Date Unknown

Oil on masonite

posted by Steve Melcher @ 7:41 PM   0 Comments

Sunday, April 11, 2021

MASTERPIECE #2683


Suzanne Valadon, French

When You Said You Knew a Smokin' Model I Could Paint, This Isn't What I Thought You Meant, 1923

Oil on canvas

posted by Steve Melcher @ 4:33 PM   0 Comments

Thursday, April 8, 2021

MASTERPIECE #2682


Jacques Jean Raoul Jourdan, French

"Are We Going To Just Sit Here and Waste Day After Day in a Pointless Life of Leisure? Or Get a Job and Actually Do Something Meaningful With Our Lives?"

"The First One."

"Works For Me."

Before 1916

Oil on canvas

posted by Steve Melcher @ 5:16 PM   0 Comments

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

MASTERPIECE #2681


 













Franz Stuck, German

Spring Breakers, Greece 2500 B.C., 1918

Oil on canvas

posted by Steve Melcher @ 9:57 PM   0 Comments

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

MASTERPIECE #2680


 













Julio Romero de Torres, Spanish

Still Life With Four Oranges and a Pair, 1927

Oil and tempera on canvas

posted by Steve Melcher @ 6:48 PM   0 Comments

Monday, April 5, 2021

MASTERPIECE #2679


Hans von Faber du Faur, German

"Dude, Seriously? A Man Thong? It's 1920. Read the Room," 1920

Gouache on cardboard

posted by Steve Melcher @ 5:36 PM   0 Comments

Sunday, April 4, 2021

MASTERPIECE #2678


Julio Romero de Torres, Spanish

When Geoffrey and Beth's Daughter Was Born, They Admitted They'd Always Wanted a Girl. "Shocker," Said Their Sons. 1919

Oil and tempera on canvas

posted by Steve Melcher @ 3:57 PM   0 Comments

Thursday, April 1, 2021

MASTERPIECE #2677


H.A. Brendekilde, Danish

Man Playing Beta Version of Whack-A-Mole, 1918

Oil on canvas

posted by Steve Melcher @ 7:48 PM   0 Comments