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The painting is of a nude woman reclining on a bed. The colour palette is dominated by warm browns and tans. The woman is lying on her side with one arm raised behind her head. She is gazing at the viewer.

Reclining Nude

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
La Marietta (1843)
Strengthened paper on canvas
26 × 42 (10 ¼ × 16½).
Musée du Petit Palais, Paris

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I’d come. If invited.

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From the old box

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It’s usually between butter and margarine here. :))

YouTube video by Origins Reborn John Shuttleworth - Two Margarines

Tuesday.

youtu.be/-K4cEocL5kI

🤣 “I’m not waving my card over for a 2p fork.”

Thank you Patrick, with hot, steaming gravy to top it off. Love the sliced white bread too, as if there isn’t enough carbohydrates already. :)

Berries on a tree. Deep crimson colour.

I love the colour of these berries.
Mix that colour? Lots of blue?

What’s Rag Pudding?
Hilarious you have to pay 2p for a fork.

The painting shows a nude female figure against a dark background with subtle gold patterns. The woman is lying down and her body is painted with light colours that contrast with the dark backdrop. Her face is turned towards the viewer.

Reclining Nude

Marc Chagall (1914)
Oil on board, 36.8 x 50.2
(14½ x 19%). Private collection

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I know what you mean. A Bernard Herrmann feel to that beat.

This day.

‘Will O' the Wisp’
Music by Miles Davis

Sunday Jazz

Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane
Why Was I Born? (1958)
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#sundayjazz #jazzsky

Tate’s bringing together of its Picassos is glorious — with one major caveat ‘Theatre Picasso’ shows all the Picassos the museum owns, but not to their best advantage

Amen!

“Effortlessly, a single Picasso brushstroke silences a cacophony of ideology.

The paintings defeat curatorial arrogance, and their power and magnetism render pathetic this attempt to "dis-mantle" the western culture which produced them.“
Jackie Wullschläger

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Figure on bed. Reclining, one arm raised, on foot on ground. A very small man carries a coffee table and is approaching the bed. There is a grey cat nestled up next to a footstool, a wastebasket and the bed. A huge raven sits on a shelf looking down at the bed.

Reclining Nude

Balthus
Large Composition with a Crow (1983-86) Oil on canvas, 200 x 150 (78 x 59). Private collection.

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I think it did. It was breezy but not frightening. Hope you’re ok.

A sofa show room. Looking down. Many sofas. Man sitting on one end of a green sofa. A massive brown teddy on the other end.

Saturday.

Oil painting. Naked woman standing on a table holding onto a big bird. A small man in a suit stands before her holding an orange butterfly net. He’s swinging it in an upward direction.

Had tea with my mates Malcolm and Wendy yesterday. This is one of Malcolm’s paintings. Wendy’s interpretation of the painting is, “Malcolm trying to steal my freedom.”

🖌️ Malcolm Hardy

Hello -- you’ll need to remedy that today. I’ve just returned from France and bought a one or two bottles back. :)

Season of mists and tasteless nectarines.

Two people on bikes. One, a woman, looking at the camera, sticking her tongue out.

📷 Ed van der Elsken
Oude Hoogstraat
Amsterdam (1983)

Eeeks. Think that's heading our way tomorrow. I hope you don't get blown inside out.

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Deep blue grey clouds. Close up.

This morning.
Looks like Wednesday.

BW photo. Large white orb in centre of photo. Telephone wires skirt the bottom and right side of the photo.

The sun came out today.

You’re very welcome. I’m glad you’re here.

Adur River. Fire crews practising line rescue. Five firefighters in full gear, floating on their backs. Shot from high up looking down at the crew.

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Morning Jon.

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Weathered medieval timber frame set into a patchwork wall of brick and stone at Wirksworth, Derbyshire, showing ghostly remnants of a lost building frontage.

A joy of a sight for #ThrowbackThursday - A ghost gable 👻 - caught like a fly in amber at Wirksworth in Derbyshire