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<p>[QUOTE="silverthwait, post: 415073, member: 103"]This one is a print, and I cannot remember the artist, but the mouth is the giveaway. The "accessories" were probably added by someone who thought that particular baby looked like little Nelson. who may (or may not) have been dead. The hair may have been cut after death for this use, or, less morbidly, after his first haircut. (Although, whatever the circunstance, I tend to the former. There's something that says, In Memoriam: to me...)</p><p><br /></p><p>The most exaggerated example of this kind of thing I have ever seen was owned (briefly) by my mother. It was a life-size painting of the head and shoulders of a young boy with blonde curls...taken off the original head, curl by curl and sewn in. It was a face-forward representation, and the curls were monstrously thick and tidy. Frame and all, the whole thing was about three feet by two, and Mother hung it <i>above the living room fireplace mantel. </i>!!!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>She thought it would be interesting to see people's reactions. It was! </p><p><br /></p><p>Some people took it seriously (?), some ignored it the way one ignores a zit on a self-conscious teenager's face, others tried to be diplomatic (how nicely the red shirt goes with the chairs), and there were those who shrieked with hysterical laughter (ME). There was even one stalwart gentleman who talked to us <i>from the dining room into the living room -- </i>just to be out of sight range. </p><p><br /></p><p>After a few weeks of this, my mother finally carted it off to her antique shop. Someone, she said, will just love it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Riiiiiiight...</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, someone did. He, or she, broke into the shop one night, and stole the great work of art. He, or she, left the silver, (much more portable), the jewelry, the other oddments of value, to cart off $3.63 from the desk drawer and that huge, frighful painting-with-curls.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="silverthwait, post: 415073, member: 103"]This one is a print, and I cannot remember the artist, but the mouth is the giveaway. The "accessories" were probably added by someone who thought that particular baby looked like little Nelson. who may (or may not) have been dead. The hair may have been cut after death for this use, or, less morbidly, after his first haircut. (Although, whatever the circunstance, I tend to the former. There's something that says, In Memoriam: to me...) The most exaggerated example of this kind of thing I have ever seen was owned (briefly) by my mother. It was a life-size painting of the head and shoulders of a young boy with blonde curls...taken off the original head, curl by curl and sewn in. It was a face-forward representation, and the curls were monstrously thick and tidy. Frame and all, the whole thing was about three feet by two, and Mother hung it [I]above the living room fireplace mantel. [/I]!!!!! She thought it would be interesting to see people's reactions. It was! Some people took it seriously (?), some ignored it the way one ignores a zit on a self-conscious teenager's face, others tried to be diplomatic (how nicely the red shirt goes with the chairs), and there were those who shrieked with hysterical laughter (ME). There was even one stalwart gentleman who talked to us [I]from the dining room into the living room -- [/I]just to be out of sight range. After a few weeks of this, my mother finally carted it off to her antique shop. Someone, she said, will just love it. Riiiiiiight... Well, someone did. He, or she, broke into the shop one night, and stole the great work of art. He, or she, left the silver, (much more portable), the jewelry, the other oddments of value, to cart off $3.63 from the desk drawer and that huge, frighful painting-with-curls.[/QUOTE]
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