When we got married my wife's sister painted a picture for us, as a wedding gift, a copy of a book cover - Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton - which we both really liked. Back in those days their were lots of posters on folk's walls - but we could never find one of this particular picture - so this was our only option. After a few decades I thought I would try to find out more about the original painting and the artist, Marianne Podlashuc - it turns out that there are many examples of her work online, but I couldn't track this one down. (I also found out that it is most unwise to search for images of 'Three Boys' with safe search turned off.)
The artist had quite an eventful early life - having lived through the German invasion of her homeland in the Netherlands during the Second World War. It seems that one of the recurring themes in her work revolved around depicting people who were oppressed in some way. She died in 2011
I took the original image and manipulated four more boys. It's the deep eyes that are so wonderful.
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