The morbidity of the crying girl portrait

liits · Post by **liits** » Wed 12 May, 2010 11:34 pm

oops, forgot the photo!

Si · Post by Si » Thu 13 May, 2010 9:08 am

Put it on the ceiling, Liits!

tilly · Post by **tilly** » Thu 13 May, 2010 9:41 pm

Si wrote: tyke bhoy wrote: dogduke wrote: raveydavey wrote: Those are blooming horrible paintings.Why on earth would you want one of those in the house? Dead right - they are rotten awful.Another 'popular'one was of the eastern/Thai/ woman,seemed to be one in everyother house. The one that was blue/green? and I do mean skin colour The Chinese Lady by Vladimir Tretchikoff, painted in 1950, and reputably the biggest selling art print of all time. Shame he never finished it... Hi Si if he felt like she looks its no wonder he never finished it lol

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Thu 13 May, 2010 10:51 pm

liits wrote: If you think the Blue Madonna and the crying kids are bad, you should see what I have to put up with. The picture of the horror, below, was bought by my other half. I'd sent him out with specific instructions on what to get and he came back with this damn thing. I didn't see it for a few years [because it was rolled up in a cardboard tube, and hadn't gotten around to having it framed] but blew my top when I went to collect it from the frame shop. It's eight foot x four and while it would fit in the living room, I don't want it in there. Actually, I don't want it in the house but there'll be trouble if it goes missing! Thats a great picture - I'll swap you it for one of four dogs playing pool....

Si · Post by Si » Fri 14 May, 2010 10:35 am

raveydavey wrote: liits wrote: If you think the Blue Madonna and the crying kids are bad, you should see what I have to put up with. The picture of the horror, below, was bought by my other half. I'd sent him out with specific instructions on what to get and he came back with this damn thing. I didn't see it for a few years [because it was rolled up in a cardboard tube, and hadn't gotten around to having it framed] but blew my top when I went to collect it from the frame shop. It's eight foot x four and while it would fit in the living room, I don't want it in there. Actually, I don't want it in the house but there'll be trouble if it goes missing! Thats a great picture - I'll swap you it for one of four dogs playing pool.... I really must get out more, but during a lapse in sanity, I Googled "pool dogs picture." There are at least six different versions of this bizzarre subject! Who buys them (apart from interior designers employed by breweries?)

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Fri 14 May, 2010 12:58 pm

Be careful what you google with the 'safe search' off Si. Even the most innocent of things like 'feet' can throw up some eye opening results haha

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Fri 14 May, 2010 9:01 pm

Si wrote: raveydavey wrote: liits wrote: If you think the Blue Madonna and the crying kids are bad, you should see what I have to put up with. The picture of the horror, below, was bought by my other half. I'd sent him out with specific instructions on what to get and he came back with this damn thing. I didn't see it for a few years [because it was rolled up in a cardboard tube, and hadn't gotten around to having it framed] but blew my top when I went to collect it from the frame shop. It's eight foot x four and while it would fit in the living room, I don't want it in there. Actually, I don't want it in the house but there'll be trouble if it goes missing! Thats a great picture - I'll swap you it for one of four dogs playing pool.... I really must get out more, but during a lapse in sanity, I Googled "pool dogs picture." There are at least six different versions of this bizzarre subject! Who buys them (apart from interior designers employed by breweries?) There is another one of dogs playing cards....

tilly · Post by **tilly** » Fri 14 May, 2010 9:34 pm

Si wrote: raveydavey wrote: liits wrote: If you think the Blue Madonna and the crying kids are bad, you should see what I have to put up with. The picture of the horror, below, was bought by my other half. I'd sent him out with specific instructions on what to get and he came back with this damn thing. I didn't see it for a few years [because it was rolled up in a cardboard tube, and hadn't gotten around to having it framed] but blew my top when I went to collect it from the frame shop. It's eight foot x four and while it would fit in the living room, I don't want it in there. Actually, I don't want it in the house but there'll be trouble if it goes missing! Thats a great picture - I'll swap you it for one of four dogs playing pool.... I really must get out more, but during a lapse in sanity, I Googled "pool dogs picture." There are at least six different versions of this bizzarre subject! Who buys them (apart from interior designers employed by breweries?) Or dogs that play pool lol

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Sat 15 May, 2010 4:32 pm

Found it!

Steve Jones · Post by **Steve Jones** » Sun 16 May, 2010 7:52 pm

The so called "crying boy" curse is an urban legend dreamt up by THE SUN newspaper.they claimed that firemen had found the picture intact at the scene of various fires and that it was unlucky. the stories went on for a few weeks culminating in a staged bonfire of the paintings sent in by readers to get rid of their curses!FORTEAN TIMES magazine covered it at the time in 1985-1986 and pages 98-99 of "The best of fortean Times published in 1991 by FUTURA give a summary of how the panic developed and fizzled out.