Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1785 (September 20, 2017) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment; so, I won’t point to it here.
The story behind the painting is amusing. Check out the note by the Royal Academy at www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?record=O1206 on their website.
BE THIS GUY almost 7 years ago
“Should I call 911 or finish the painting?”
orinoco womble almost 7 years ago
Still life? Maybe not…
J Short almost 7 years ago
The model was holding a cardboard sign: Will Work for Heroin.
Say What Now‽ Premium Member almost 7 years ago
She shouldn’t have accepted the drink that Bill C. offered.
Arianne almost 7 years ago
I don’t know what is going on behind her, but maybe the sight of that caused her to faint dead away.
Radish the wordsmith almost 7 years ago
Still life with corpse.
Csaw Backnforth almost 7 years ago
Is that an apple she’s holding in her right hand? Sleeping Beauty?
mabrndt Premium Member almost 7 years ago
3 URLs (each is one line):
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Powell_Frith_-_The_Sleeping_Model.JPG
(best viewed by Google Chrome – can translate pages if necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting.
https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/183
has info about this artist. So far, 4 works by him have been used here.
http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2017/01/13?comments=visible
has the prior strip.
Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1785 (September 20, 2017) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment; so, I won’t point to it here.
garcoa almost 7 years ago
This is too easy, I don’t even have to finish the painting.
rugeirn almost 7 years ago
The story behind the painting is amusing. Check out the note by the Royal Academy at www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?record=O1206 on their website.
maltmash3r almost 7 years ago
If she had lived, “Frith’s Mother” would have eclipsed Whistler’s
pcolli almost 7 years ago
The precursor to Photoshop making the model look more interesting.
d1234dick Premium Member almost 7 years ago
taking Lois’s picture just before she takes off on her space ship
zeondekilowatt almost 7 years ago
yes, I recognize the figure behind the sleeping model is a mannequin, but why is the head on backward?