LS Lowry

I have used a crop of a computerised image of one of Lowry’s factory gate pictures on a couple of my articles, usually those about workers rights. I am unsure of the images copyright status and so had a lock on the web. Tineye finds very little and wikipedia only references “Going to Work”. Here…

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Bay of Angels by Raoul Dufy

While exploring the idea of visiting Biarritz, I was reminded of a poster I used to have which I misremembered of being of Biarritz. I went looking for it, and discovered the picture I wanted was actually of the Bay of Angels which is in Nice, and was painted by Raoul Dufy, one of whose…

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Collecting Afremov’s pictures

I decided to buy two of Leonid Afremov’s pictures which are being sold by the estate. It’s all quite odd as they have been behaving as if it’s a limited stock fire sale for several years. Anyway, I bought two over the last month at discounted prices although I’ll have to frame them. Here are…

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Derain

I can’t remember where I saw it, but I was impressed/taken by one of his pool of London pictures. I wonder where they are best seen? Here are my notes. …

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Monet & the 4 Trees

The 4 trees is one of Claude Monet‘s famous paintings. I need to do a project on it but I also found some useful comments on copyright on the wikipedia page hosting the image.

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Making a world map mirror

I am looking for an old world map on a mirror. I used to have one but they seem both scarce and expensive, although these things often go together. I thought I might have one made. Here are my notes. 

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