Saturday, December 18, 2010
Friday, December 17, 2010
Lace and Face
Edward Steichen/Rolf Petersen, Gloria Swanson, New York, (for Vanity Fair), silver print, 1924; printed 1960s-1971. Sold for $26,400.
Gamblers
Jacob Lawrence, Two Card Players, gouache on brown composition board, circa 1941-42. Sold for $67,200.
Poster Art
... beautiful posters by Jules Cheret, Alphonse Mucha, Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and many more.
Eccentric
Noun
- S: (n) eccentric, eccentric person, flake, oddball, geek (a person with an unusual or odd personality)
- S: (n) character, eccentric, type, case (a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)) "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case"
Adjective
- S: (adj) bizarre, eccentric, freakish, freaky, flaky, flakey, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre (conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual) "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics"
- S: (adj) eccentric, nonconcentric (not having a common center; not concentric) "eccentric circles"
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