The Daily Painting: Picking Poppies, Sora

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Picking Poppies, Sora

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Viggo Christian Frederick Pedersen

(Danish, 1854-1926)

Picking Poppies, Sora, 1884

Oil on canvas

2 comments:

AnonymousJuly 15, 2010 at 10:11 PM
*another* poppy painting!!! ;D ;D ;D

:-* CM
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R. A.July 16, 2010 at 1:07 PM
I'm just a little obsessed. XD
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