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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Well, well, I see you have returned for your Friday Afternoon Challenge! Today: “Interiors.” [View all]frazzled
(18,402 posts)12. #3 is a Balthus
La Chambre, from 1954.
The prepubscent girl was the dead giveaway!
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Well, well, I see you have returned for your Friday Afternoon Challenge! Today: “Interiors.” [View all]
CTyankee
Jan 2013
OP
No! I thought maybe Vermeer and went looking for the title of the piece. Instead I found this.
yardwork
Jan 2013
#10
It's funny, but the title I had from the painting I downloaded was in French and I didn't know
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#17
This genre is nice is probably why. There is a quiet feeling. An intimate moment that we can
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#35
Hmm, funny how we never see an artist's rendering of his (or someone else's) "other" body
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#39
Yes, as I said this struck me as pretty strange and demented. Balthus must've been a wierd guy...
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#19
The compositional use of interior light is what I found striking about this work.
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#22
did you happen to notice that the flooring in #1 is the same pattern as the ceiling in #5?
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#36
I'd have never spotted those tiles.... So unusual on the ceiling...from our POV...
nenagh
Jan 2013
#42
well, I went on an art intensive in Florence, where I saw both of these works and I had
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#44