To celebrate this milestone, I have decided to run another contest. The first person to name the subject and the artist of the painting featured in the detail above will receive a brand new 40 ml tube of cerulean blue oil paint from Vasari Classic Artists' Oil Colors.
If you've never tried Vasari, it is a wonderful paint, and their cerulean is unlike any other I've seen from the major commercial makers of oil colors. Vasari's cerulean is deeper and greener than most, but grays quite nicely when lightened with white, and the pigment content is very rich and opaque. It is a color Fechin gladly would have eaten!
My apologies in advance to the winner of this contest; this tube of Vasari paint may act like a gateway drug, and you'll end up buying more (it is NOT inexpensive, but I guess quality never is). I still blame David Kassan for introducing me to Vasari, and after my wife saw my credit card bill, she does too. Every time I'm in New York City, I stop by Vasari's retail shop to buy another tube of color, all the same.
When I ran the previous contest on this blog to celebrate the century mark, I was worried that the image I posted might be too obscure, but to my surprise, the painting from that competition was correctly identified by the next morning. Should no one deduce the above painting by next Monday, August 24th, however, I am prepared re-post the contest with some clues added.
Best of luck!
12 comments:
Hi, I just want to thank you for posting such wonderful artwork and information for all the artists and others out there who follow you. It's a wealth of information and we appreciate all the time you spend doing it. I think the painting of the hand is from either a Zorn or Feichin painting, more likely Zorn, but have to figure out which painting. You are a great artist also. Mollie
Whoops! Misspelled Fechin. Sorry. Mollie
Is it the painting of "President Grover Cleveland" by Anders Zorn?
Mollie
Mollie, is that your final answer?
Yes, my final answer is "President Grover Cleveland" by Anders Zorn.
Mollie
Dammit, Mollie, you beat me to it!
Grover Cleveland by Anders Zorn. (Just in Case.)
Anders Zorn's portrait of President Grover Cleveland!
Sorry I beat you to the punch, Kurt, but I'm also very happy to win the tube of paint. I had a tube of this brand of paint years ago that was a very unusual color and hated to see it used up.
Mollie
So, learned two things today:
1. It takes me longer to come up with a competition then it takes you guys to solve it (geez, Mollie, under 45 minutes after the post?!)
2. I need to come up with harder competitions!
Congratulations, Mollie! Send your mailing address to me at matthew@innisfineart.com and I'll get that tube out to you as soon as possible.
(for the record, I showed the image to my wife first- and she is a wonderful painter- and she gave up trying to guess what the detail was after 3 minutes... not who did it... she couldn't even tell it was a hand! You guys are good!)
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any paint for telling ya where that painting is? NPG in DC. :) as I know a lot of folks here visit it every time the PSoA is down there. :)
David- You'll get nothing and like it. We went to the NPG together and were in the room at the same time when I took that picture of Cleveland's hand!
Congratulations Mollie.
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