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Wednesday, November 17, 2021

THROWBACK THURSDAY: #1874 (1/29/18)























Edouard Quitton, Belgian

"So Were You Ever Planning To Tell Your Mother and Me You Were Stripping?  Or Were You Just Going To Wait Until We Opened This W-2?," 1884

Oil on oak

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Sunday, September 19, 2021

MASTERPIECE #1784























Friedrich Horschelt, German

When Your Neighbors' Remodeling Crew Starts With the Power Drills at 6 in the F*ing Morning, 1853

Oil on canvas

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posted by Steve Melcher @ 6:53 PM   1 Comments

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

MASTERPIECE #1904






















Paul Gauguin, French

 Wendy Discovered She Could Save a Fortune on Laundry Detergent By Making Each Day’s Clothing From Scratch, 1880

Oil on canvas

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Sunday, March 4, 2018

MASTERPIECE #1901























Edmund Leighton, British

Shoot.  That Was Probably the Domino's Delivery Guy at the Door, and Gwendolyn Didn't Have Anything Smaller Than a Fifty.  Maybe She Could Just Give Him the Caravaggio?, 1891

Oil on panel

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Sunday, December 24, 2017

MASTERPIECE #1854
















James Clark, English

"Merry Christmas, Everyone!  I Made My Special Unidentifiable Brown Thing.  Dig In!," 1902

Oil on canvas

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Sunday, December 17, 2017

MASTERPIECE #1848
















Eduard Kurzbauer, Austrian

"Yes, Fred, In Retrospect She Probably Should've Said 'Spoiler Alert,' But We Naturally Assumed You'd Already Seen the New 'Star Wars' Movie," 1874

Oil on canvas

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Monday, November 6, 2017

MASTERPIECE #1819
















David Bles, Dutch

The Answer To The Question:  What If An Entire Family Had ADD?, 1869

Oil on oak panel

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Wednesday, October 18, 2017

MASTERPIECE #1806
















Friedrich Ritter von Friedländer-Malheim, Bohemian-Austrian

"It's Okay, Dad.  Lots of People Accidentally Put $95 Million Winning Powerball Tickets Through the Dryer,"Before 1901

Oil on panel

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Tuesday, October 3, 2017

MASTERPIECE #1795























Adolf von Schallberg, Austrian

 "Sorry, Adolf.  I Didn't Notice This Pile of Dirty Laundry Behind Me Until Just Now.  Plus I'm Standing Weird.  Can We Please Start Over?", 1860

Oil on canvas

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Sunday, October 1, 2017

MASTERPIECE #1793

















Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, Danish

"Oh, There Actually IS Something Here in the Manual, Honey.  It Says 'Tip #4: When Standing on Ladder, Try Not To Fall Off,'" 1865

Oil on canvas

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Sunday, July 30, 2017

A PRICELESS CLASSIC (2016)























Edmund Blair Leighton, English

"Where the Hell is That Drawbridge Repairman?  They Said Between 8 and Noon," 1916

Oil on canvas

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Monday, May 8, 2017

MASTERPIECE #1704















Louis-François Cassas, French

"Of Course I'd Love to Live Here Forever, But 'His Majesty' Wants to Flip It and Downsize to a Condo," 1822

Watercolor on paper

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Monday, March 27, 2017

MASTERPIECE #1673
















William George Stephen, British

"I'm Not Going To Lie To You -- It's a Fixer-Upper.  But You Can't Beat the School District," 1812

Watercolor

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Friday, December 30, 2016

A PRICELESS CLASSIC (2013)























John William Waterhouse, English

Pandora Choosing an Unfortunate Place to Look for the Remote, 1896

Oil on canvas

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Wednesday, December 28, 2016

A PRICELESS CLASSIC (2010)























George Desmarees, French

The Artist, Suddenly Regretting His Decision to Work From Home, 1750

Oil on canvas

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Wednesday, December 21, 2016

MASTERPIECE #1606























Louise Jopling, English

 "Hey Sis, Remind Me Again How We Can Live on a Multi-Million Dollar English Country Estate and Not Have a F***ing Dishwasher," 1896

Oil on canvas

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Monday, January 11, 2016

MASTERPIECE #1360
















Henry Ossawa Tanner, American

Wondering if She Should Alert Her Landlord About the Wormhole in Her Apartment, 1898

Oil on canvas

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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

MASTERPIECE #1044























Sandro Botticelli, Italian

Woman Learning the Hard Way to Never Wash Her Whites With Her Colors, 1495

Tempera on wood

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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

MASTERPIECE #1011























Alexander Orlowski, Polish

"101 Uses For A Vacuum Cleaner Bag" (#57), 1820

Pencil and sanguine on paper

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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

MASTERPIECE #1007



















William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French

Orestes Pursued By the Furies (After Leaving the Toilet Seat Up), 1862

Oil on canvas

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