That's sweet Vel, sexy eyes and lips.
Claudia looks nice too.

Sorry I didn't put NOLF in the picture, he would have liked that.

i've got the only copy of 'artists and models' in the western world? maybe?
documentary they showed in the eighties about David, Gericault and Engres.

It's a great show, the BBC should show it again?(unless they burned it?)
I've not watched it for ages.

I was watching Brando play Napoleon, in Désirée and they brought up Bernadotte?
I watched a documentary called 'killing the count' on youtube. Count Folke Bernadotte was assassinated last century. He must have been an ancestor? strange to think these families are still up there controlling society today? Rothschild, Bernadotte?

who else is still around?

Warum ist alles in caps aber nicht "i"? In Deutschland solche inkonsistenz wurde bestraft sein. Mit wierd stuff. Butt stuff.

That was to Foinavon's painting earlier

Nolf's drawing after Scott Sinclair opened the scoring from a pen.

Showdil tied a felt marker to Nolf's right front paw, but other than that, Nolf worked unaided.

Well, we'll have to see about that, won't we? My initial feeling about the matter is that Nolf is super-prolific...like a CANINE PICASSO...

I'll just screencap all this sh1t n sioux the blast out of you and HIRST / HURST or whatever your names are!

20%?

Even a tithe is only 10!

And what leverage can I get on love??

i DO think I;m

I will think about that.

If it turns out I still am, will you give me/20%, GIVEN THAT I MUST EAT YOUR CALVES, otherwise, hey.

There are loads of Czech and Russian jockeys I can't think of either, and I'm better at riding horses than 90% of these robotic, state-sponsored basturts...it's not their fault my jockey career didn't pan out for one reason or t'other. I apportion no blame to them, or to the Soviet Union as was, or even Czechoslovakia pre-Havel.

OF course you are right.

Therefore I wish to correct an earlier mistake to the effect that Nolf's green drawing has nothing to do with Scott USINC - sorry, I'm typing in darkness here --

the art market is just stocks and shares for the mega rich.

the CIA made it a point to create a USA stock portfolio after the second world war.

Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Rothko among others were spun into a frenzy by market manipulation by the CIA.

if you buy a painting by an unknown artist at £1000 - the auctioneers look at the past sales as guides to price that artist's future works.

I heard of a story were a man in charge of an art collection bought one artist's work at an elevated price. He got a kick back from the artist. the artist can then sell his work for higher rates to other collections.

Saatchi the great art collector has sold off parts of his collections at times. Dumping an artist's work onto the market. ruining the artist in one stroke. his stock plummeting.

Great art is not a blank wall, a splodge or a abstraction - that's stocks and shares.

SMOKIN'....Klimt?

FUNNILY ENOUGH...

Have to admit I just, by sheer coincidence, looked at a Klimt on a Sotheby's website about an hour ago...

He was a brilliant artist and did some amazing drawings. I saw a book in Waterstones a few years ago but thought it too expensive. Wished I had bought it now.

You've got to cost it by the coloured page, Foinavon...that's how I justify buying expensive art books...

Yes, you're right but I baulked at the price which I think was £60. Perfect reproductions though, and it's not like I can't afford it

Yes, it would especially if out of print now.