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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;verybrad, post: 111772, member: 37&quot;]Looks like we may have exhausted the comments on this pair.&nbsp; It seems rather mixed as to whether or not people like or appreciate these paintings.&nbsp; They were chosen for their similarity in composition and lack of clear focus.&nbsp; I find the latter rather disconcerting in both.&nbsp; You really don&#039;t know what to look at and your focus darts about.&nbsp; It seems that many of you picked up on this immediately.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am with most of you in that I think the artist of painting A had some talent but fell short on execution.&nbsp; The birds and other elements are well done but there are scale and perspective problems.&nbsp; I like the comment about this being dining room mural-like.&nbsp; I could see this hanging in a breakfast room but not in mine.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is not a whole lot I like about painting B.&nbsp; I almost get the feeling that someone did a portrait and didn&#039;t like it so added all the other stuff over it.&nbsp; I would want to obliterate her myself ... LOL.&nbsp; I do rather like the comment that the woman is unraveling by threads.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Both paintings are by unknowns.&nbsp; Painting A is probably from the 40s and bears a monogram that I was never able to attribute.&nbsp; I think it is by an amateur with some experience.&nbsp; Painting B probably has more age than most would guess.&nbsp; The canvas is stretched and tacked rather than stapled, which tends to date paintings to the 60s or earlier.&nbsp; It is unsigned and I get a feeling that this is student work.&nbsp; Both paintings are sold.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Painting A got schlepped around for a few years including several stints on ebay at $99.00 with free shipping. I had it two separate times in my store at various prices.&nbsp; I finally traded it to another dealer who commented that she liked it as I was pulling it for a final time.&nbsp; The tag on it read $145.00 at that point.&nbsp; I offered it to her at $100.00 and she said she would think about it.&nbsp; I then countered that I would trade it for a large art deco lamp shade she had at a slightly higher list price and pay her the difference in cash ($20.00).&nbsp;&nbsp; She took it and I sold the shade with an appropriate chrome fixture I provided easily on&nbsp; ebay for $350.00.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Painting B sold first time I listed it on ebay for $99.00 with free shipping.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t have any competing bidders but it sold readily.&nbsp; Of the two paintings, I thought this one would have been the harder to sell.&nbsp; Obviously someone really liked it and comments here seem to suggest that it tends to elicit feelings at polar opposites.&nbsp; This may be better than a painting that is pleasant but doesn&#039;t elicit any strong feelings. </p><p><br /></p><p>I will post another pair of paintings in a bit........[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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