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I love this stuff - there's the idea that an artist just sits down and paints stuff from scratch, or that somebody actually sits for hours, posing for a painting, but since the origin of photography the art of painting has created two pieces of art for every print that ended up on a matchbook cover for a seedy bar. These Gil Elvgren studies all became iconic paintings, and neither version is hard on the eyes.

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