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Augustin Lesage (emilypothast.files.wordpress.com)

In 1911, when he was 35 years old, Lesage claimed he heard a voice speak to him from the darkness of the mine and tell him, “One day you will be a painter”....

'Next The Oceans VII' Aquatint by Marianne Ferm (lemmy.ml)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/4565525...

Love and Pain - Edvard Munch (1893) (live.staticflickr.com)

Originally this piece was called “Love and Pain”. It was only later that it picked up the name “Vampire” and interpretation of a man locked in a vampire’s embrace. Munch maintained it was nothing more than a woman kissing a man on the neck....

'Psychopomp' collage by Hollie Chastain (lemmy.ml)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/4564929...

The War and Us - Edward Okun (1917) (www.kunsthalle-muc.de)

1917...

The Washerwoman study - Camille Pissarro (1880) (upload.wikimedia.org)

The Laborers - Georges Seurat (1883) (upload.wikimedia.org)

'Rabbit Kite Drone (after Feldman and Hoskins)' Etching and Photo Etching by Justin Diggle (lemmy.ml)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/4510582...

The Prison Courtyard by Vincent van Gogh (1890) (i.postimg.cc)

Portrait of Edwin Booth - John Singer Sargent (1890) (upload.wikimedia.org)

Edwin Booth was a famous actor and the brother of John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Abraham Lincoln. In an incident likely in 1864-5 (as recalled by the younger Lincoln) Edwin rescued Lincoln’s son Robert from falling under a train at a station in New Jersey. Robert recognised the man who saved him, but only later did Edwin...

Once Upon a Time - Mark Maggiore (s.hdnux.com)

Encounter - Frank Frazetta (1989) pencil, pen and ink and watercolor (www.frazettamuseum.com)

Cover study for the Writers of the Future book series.

The Magical Wooden Head - E.Mervyn Taylor (1952) wood block engraving (christchurchartgallery.org.nz)

Cass - Rita Angus (1936) oil on canvas on board (christchurchartgallery.org.nz)

From Christchurch gallery site - “This work by Rita Angus has come to symbolise the hard-edged clarity of the Canterbury school of landscape painting. It was made following the artist’s ten-day visit to the remote high country railway settlement of Cass in 1936 with painters Louise Henderson and Julia Scarvell. The...