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Message:: [QUOTE="antidiem, post: 38274, member: 30"]By "student work" - I didn't mean it had to have been painted in an art classroom. Merely that it appears to be unprofessionally done by someone learning to paint. The painter didn't know how to handle the "blacks", nor shade and shadow, the paint colors are muddy, painted as though the human figure were a still-life off-white vase (especially the woman). Looks like someone trying to do realism but fell short of getting the proportions right (amongst other things). Also there may be something painted beneath this, as there appears to be some sort of imagery beneath the background black, it wasn't uncommon for student painters to re-use their "reject" canvases. The canvas itself appears to be hand-stretched and stapled by hand, but I cannot see it well enough to tell for certain, but the stretching job looks unprofessional*, like what a student would do. *This would neither add nor detract from the value (if any). How big is this?[/QUOTE]