The morbidity of the crying girl portrait
-
Phill_dvsn
- Posts: 4423
- Joined: Wed 21 Feb, 2007 5:47 am
Steve Jones wrote: 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. Hi Steve. Good to see your still about I put about the Sun newspaper thing on the other page too. But i must confess i did hear about it being a 'supposed cursed painting' back in the 70's. I heard it a few times, i found it a little unsettling as a lad. I think those things tend to stick in your mind too.
My flickr pictures are herehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn/Because lunacy was the influence for an album. It goes without saying that an album about lunacy will breed a lunatics obsessions with an album - The Dark side of the moon!
-
Steve Jones
- Posts: 1516
- Joined: Fri 18 Jan, 2008 2:41 pm
- Location: Wakefield
-
String o' beads
- Posts: 1362
- Joined: Wed 06 Feb, 2008 6:09 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... The original sitter for this picture's been found:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... walls.html
-
Johnny39
- Posts: 894
- Joined: Mon 11 Jun, 2007 3:54 pm
About the same time as the Chinese Lady there was a picture of white horses pounding through the surf which was also very popular. At that time Boots the Chemist on Briggate had a department which sold artistic prints, I bought a number of Peter Scott's wildfoul prints there.
Daft I call it - What's for tea Ma?