I must apologize for the long silence. An accident in the family at the beginning of the year, and then my computer went haywire, so I've been offline for a long while; but everything is back to normal now. Thank you for the various messages and emails, I will reply individually in the next day or two as I work through my mailbox.

Quite a spooky one, like an illustration for a Victorian ghost-story.

Russian portraits will be one of our themes for the beginning of this year.

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An American painter who was an unashamed purveyor of Kitsch; but I like this somehow, I suppose because the size of the water-lilies give it a slightly surreal air. There's no point in picking them though, they won't keep.

So farewell to the old year, and a welcome to the new!

Lady in a Pink Shawl.

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Not the first cabbages we've had, here are more by Max Liebermann and Edvard Munch:
http://petrusplancius.livejournal.com/174962.html