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Originally Posted by Linda Brandon
Thank you, Sharon, for this kind comment. Your good opinion means a lot to me.
Are you familiar with Sargent's "Dr. Pozzi At Home"? It's one of my favorite paintings and I was trying to get similar reds in the background of my self portrait.
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Several years ago, my art club was throwing a fund raising party to coincide with the Sargent exhibit at the Boston Museum.
The affair was held at a Boston club with an Indian name of some tribe their ancestors had long since annihilated. It was the sort of club that if they knew my pedigree, my membership would have been hysterically refused. It was magnificent and posh.
Early in the evening a very grand and elegant lady of advanced age, wafted down the grand spiral staircase. Elbows were jiggled, people were whispering. All I could gather was that she was a southern belle who had snared one of Boston's richest heirs.
I had the good fortune to sit next to this lady on the bus over the museum. She was lively and funny.
We went into the museum to the Sargent exhibit where we came upon the portrait of Dr. Pozzi. It is impossible to describe the electricity of seeing that painting in person. The closest thing I can think of is the opening scene in the movie "Saturday Night Fever" when a young John Travolta swivels down a sidewalk. After staring at the painting for a few seconds, the lady turned to me and cooed in the creamiest southern drawl imaginable. "Oh I could lose mah virtue to him.!"