debodun
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- Location
- way upstate in New York, USA
My mom bought this painting at a garage sale in the 1980s. She paid over $100 for it (which wold be about $300 in today's money). It is a "reverse" painting - that is the artist starts painting the foreground and works to the background. In traditional painting, the background is painted first and the artist works toward the foreground. This can only be done on glass (which this is) or other transparent material. There is some info on the Internet about reverse paintings, but I get the impression that they are on the uncommon side. This one is mounted in an ornate gilded plaster frame. I had it out for sale this spring and one man aksed me to remove the painting and he's give me $20 for the FRAME. I couldn't remove the glass - it looks like it is nailed in. Another woman said it gave her the creeps. Hey! My mom liked paintings with moonlight in them!