The Second Swindler did nothing impressive when he was twenty.

[invisibyron]

Well. I received another empty envelope from the student affairs office; the mystery continues.

Someone found another early Picasso, tucked on some English estate. He was about twenty when he painted it. These days it's risky layering too much praise on the man--people will look at you like you're stupid, I've seen it happen--but I think it has

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[puppeteeress]

Is that the one they have labeled rare? Lover clinch? Watercolor?

[invisibyron]

They found it with a Stubbs and a Munnings--"Etreinte", and yes, a watercolor. It's supposed to come up for auction some time this April.

[puppeteeress]

Interesting. I recall reading about it while in Nottingham. Such an interesting find, exceptional how they managed to find three wonderful paintings at once. Have you taken a special interest in any?

[invisibyron]

Give us a few years

I imagine they'll all go straight to private collectors.

[invisibyron]

Are you having them send me empty envelopes? That's very thoughtful, I do always need envelopes.

[invisibyron]

I should congratulate you, then, on that whole cubism thing.

[giftapfel]

[invisibyron]

Probably Nighthawks and The Vitruvian Man, too.

[giftapfel]

Oh, but I like Hopper.

And something by Francis Bacon because he is so extremely "edgy" and dark.

[invisibyron]

I'm not mocking.

Well, I am mocking a little, but it's good-natured and autobiographical. I suppose Bosch is more of a college thing?

Jane, I am in awe of your ability to fake an intimate knowledge of art history.

[elder_goat]

Man, if ONLY I'd ever been a significant figure in history. All my lives I've been a poor working stiff. I gotta laugh at all the people who claim to have been Napoleon or something in a past life. There were a lot more fish mongers and blacksmiths and carpenters than there were glorious generals.