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The Card Players
- Paul Cézanne, 1892

Cézanne painted five versions of The Card Players throughout his career.

One version was sold to the State of Qatar for $300 million in 2011. At the time, it was the most expensive painting ever sold.

Edgar Allan Poe and Edvard Munch were kindred spirits across art forms—haunted by grief, illness, and anxiety.

Misunderstood in their time, they poured their darkness into beauty. Today, they’re revered. The world caught up, but they never got to see it.

“We loved with a love that was more than love”
- Edgar Allan Poe -

Edvard Munch, The Kiss, 1892

The Potato Eaters
- Vincent Van Gogh, 1885

Van Gogh considered this his most successful painting.

“What I think about my own work is that the painting of the peasants eating potatoes that I did in Nuenen is after all the best thing I did".

“You don't become confident by shouting affirmations in the mirror, but by having a stack of undeniable proof that you are who you say you are.

Outwork your self-doubt.”

The Sick Child
- Edvard Munch, 1885

Painting draws on Munch’s memory of his sisters death from tuberculosis. It records his despair and guilt that he survived instead of her.
It was a breakthrough in his art.

He later wrote: “Most of what I have done since had its birth in this picture”

Renoir’s 'At the Theatre' (1876) captures Parisian elegance and social intrigue.

A woman in a luxurious black gown, holding opera glasses, sits beside a shadowed man—highlighting 19th-century theatre as a stage for both performance and status.

Life is too short to worry about the opinions of people who only exist within a free app on your phone.
- Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)

Perhaps true possession is not in owning, but in experiencing so deeply that it becomes part of us.

“The Magpie" is Monet's largest winter painting and depicts a solitary black magpie perched on a gate formed in a wattle fence.

“The Magpie”
- Claude Monet (1869)
Musée d'Orsay.

Cute picture ☺️

Starry Night
- Edvard Munch, 1893

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“Be the Best of Whatever You Are”

American poet Douglas Malloch (1877-1938)

Norwegian painter Edvard Munch was born 161 years ago today.

Munch spent almost all of his life followed by illness and death. He suffered serious and recurring mental health problems. The presence of all of these themes in his works is almost a constant.

Self-Portrait, 1882