It is almost certainly (a reproduction of?) an American primitive painting - I didn't mean to suggest otherwise, just pointing out the resemblance to Las Meninas (and Picasso's versions) which it might have triggered in your picture memory. You might also be thinking about Picasso's Boy With A Dove. <http://www.worldgallery.co.uk/art-print/Child-with-a-Dove,-1901-25639.html>
> > Thanks Bob W, I thought I remembered some famous painting > like that - a boy in fancy dress outfit. But John may be > right, it could be easily an early american primitive > painting and not a reproduction of a more famous work. > Regards, Bob S. > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Bob W <p...@web-options.com> wrote: > >> From: Bob Sullivan > >> > Doug, > >> > Wow, that's a nice set of photos! I've been thru the > flash series > >> > several times but like the html version better. Like > Christine, I > >> > keep coming back to #8. Isn't that an early Matise or Picasso > >> > painting above? It is memorable for the subject's odd > atire. The > >> > whole scene is a sort of echo with the lad in formal > dress on the > >> > antique sofa. > >> > Regards, Bob S. > >> > >> Stylistically, it's Early American portraiture ... 18th century > >> equivalent of getting "Uncle George" to take family photos > because he > >> has a "real" camera. > >> > >> The painting is a primitive, un-schooled style - typical > of itinerant > >> American artists in the late colonial and early post > colonial period. > >> > >> If it's a known painter, it might be worth some money, but not > >> anything near as much as its value as a family heirloom. > >> > >> That's somebody's great-great-great-great ... grandma. > > > > Not necessarily. > > > > The pose and the dress resemble the Infanta in Las Meninas > by Velasquez. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Meninas > > > > It's worth visiting Madrid just to see that one picture. > But you get a > > whole load of Velasquez's in the same museum (the Prado), > and all the Goyas too! > > > > Picasso was obsessed by Velasquez and made a lot of very > interesting > > and extraordinary studies of Las Meninas, which are in the Picasso > > museum in > > Barcelona: > > http://www.bcn.cat/museupicasso/en/collection/mpb70-459.html > > > > Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
