the magician and the high priestess! scythe blog 2k13

“Hangover eyes”
Abandoned tattoo idea for Machado de Assis’ character Capitu. Like all abandoned tattoo ideas, it needs to be adopted, or it will likely die.

John Singer Sargent
Marionettes, 1903, oil on board, 55.88 x 72.39 cm, private collection.
Sotheby’s annual spring auction of American Art in New York will feature today an important painting by John Singer Sargent, which remained in the artist’s collection for more than 20 years before descending through his family to the present owner.
Marionettes (estimate $5-7 million) is a rare and dynamic example of the artist’s work outside of society portraiture, depicting a group of men from the large Italian American community of Philadelphia at the turn of the 20th century performing Sicilian puppet theater.
Stay tuned on twitter for the results of the sale!

Young man with cat on the bed. 1620. Giovanni Lanfranco. Italian. 1582-1647. oil on canvas. http://hadrian6.tumblr.com