The Daily Painting: The Poppy field

Sunday, June 6, 2010

The Poppy field

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Ignac Ujvary

(Hungarian, 1880-1927)

The Poppy Field, ????

Oil on canvas

2 comments:

AnonymousJuly 15, 2010 at 9:51 PM
ha-ha! I find it....interesting that I'm coming across such a fair number of paintings with poppies as the subject considering your love of them. ;D ;D

:-* CM
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R. A.July 16, 2010 at 1:09 PM
I admit it. The day after I got back from Rome I started looking for poppy paintings. XD
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