Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Diego Rivera Nude with Calla Lilies painting

Diego Rivera Nude with Calla Lilies paintingGustav Klimt The Tree of Life paintingGustav Klimt Expectation (gold foil) painting
could curl up outside Mr. Truman’s apartment. If Mr. Truman or the McBees found him sleeping there, however, he would appear to be a gutless weenie and an embarrassment to the name Manheim.He decided that the library offered the best refuge. He always felt comfortable among books. And although the library lay on the second floor, which was as lonely as the third, it had no mirrors.The tree of angels greeted him.He recoiled from the winged multitude.Then. The basalts were all matte-finish black, not shiny. Two thousand years had worn the luster from the glaze on the Han pieces, and Fric had no concern that an ancient figure of a horse or a water jar made before the birth of Christ might serve as a peephole through which he could be watched by some wicked creature in a neighboring dimension.At the back of the library, a door led to a powder room. Using a straight- he realized that this evergreen featured not a single shiny ornament from which an evil other-dimensional entity could pass into this world or watch from another.Indeed, the dangling angels seemed to suggest that here was a protected place, true sanctuary.Throughout the massive chamber, the decorative urns and pots and amphorae and figurines were either Wedgwood basalts with Empire-period themes or Han Dynasty porcelains

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