Still pitcher, candle, book and pipe
 

Sereda all good evening !

and unsolved history of this still life .... 5 years ago from another travel (France) brought a still life in gloomy tones - like something out of all of the proposed local Burnt by the Sun ( and neochen ) at a flea market , I liked it ... .. well, or vice versa - I told him. well then , for a succession of endless crossings still life almost did not see the white light - except that of the slots on the packaging wrapper ..... Well here we settled : and I thought of her gloomy stranger from France. Renovated housing define the frame and place it
I ask you , the experts , to help me determine its roots ...... may pitcher - or rather his ornament, something you said ...... Holland? only undecided - I would love to hear that he is mediocre ... Thankful in advance !

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Time Catcher, wow, views grow - and less words ! so do our still life left without attention and care ?

Marius Galleras, a French artist.
Rhode.
in 1900.

Jane Doe, delighted that you know it!
 
- And I can - winner of his work (I dare to hope that I have the original) to be educated about this artist on your link - because my attempts to get his work did not succeed!

Time Catcher, about Marius Galleras, French artist , I can not say anything , but on the picture ... It illustrates Carlyle quote : "Of all the manifestations of human creativity the most amazing and worth seeing this book. The books live thoughts of past times ; clearly and distinctly hear voices of people whose ashes long ago shattered like a dream. All that mankind has made , changed his mind , all that it has reached , all preserved , as if by magic, in the pages of the books "

Here's more on the same story

http://forum.artinvestment.ru/pictur...ctureid=140371

is not.
It is quite another story.

"What could be better than sitting in the evening with a pipe of tobacco, empty jug of wine?"
  
If nuts - a symbol of access to wisdom ... A pitcher - can be equated to the source of knowledge.
That tube - smoke and ashes.

Neck, still life - an expression of thought?
Agree!

Philosophical picture.

Paraphrasing a little quote from the movie: "What else does a man need that used to age?"

  
There are three joys of life.

Magnolia, and how it is - he lived was an artist ..... philosopher .... and all?
sorrow

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Neck, yes, these emotions, I think, led my hand to take it from a flea market - in good light, the picture looks so alive - as if at any moment the owner of the tube back and continue his philosophizing ..
...

No, not "all".
Remains skazyvanie and showing of for posterity.
Neck noted that shows different: old age - in the dust descendants - the gift of wisdom.

E !
Just do not say that I dictate " proper understanding of the painting"
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Here are some characters - everyone is free to be understood as anything. Can not even find what the artist did not intend , and said ..
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