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LOLITA Query (fwd)
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> I have always wondered whether there was a real painter / painting
> hiding behind those lines in LOLITA, I, 13, p. 58 (Appel's
> Annotated)(despite the fact that it is a superb "mise-en-abyme" of H & Lo's
> relation on the couch and what / where is (or might be) this "picture of the
> week".
>
> a surrealist painter relaxing supine, on a beach and near him, likewise
> supine, a plaster replica of the Venus di Milo, half-buried in sand. The
> Picture of the Week, said the legend.
>
> If anyone can give a clue or a cue,...
>
> Thanks.
> Christine Raguet-Bouvart
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If memory serves, the last page of each issue of "Life" magazine was a
photograph of something interesting/amusing/unusual. I don't recall if
those photographs were called "Picture of the Week", however.
A search of back issues of "Life" magazine (any enthusiastic undergraduates
out there?) from the '40s or '50s is likely to turn up the photo in question.
The description of the photo leads me to believe that the painter is
Salvador Dali.
Brian
> I have always wondered whether there was a real painter / painting
> hiding behind those lines in LOLITA, I, 13, p. 58 (Appel's
> Annotated)(despite the fact that it is a superb "mise-en-abyme" of H & Lo's
> relation on the couch and what / where is (or might be) this "picture of the
> week".
>
> a surrealist painter relaxing supine, on a beach and near him, likewise
> supine, a plaster replica of the Venus di Milo, half-buried in sand. The
> Picture of the Week, said the legend.
>
> If anyone can give a clue or a cue,...
>
> Thanks.
> Christine Raguet-Bouvart
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If memory serves, the last page of each issue of "Life" magazine was a
photograph of something interesting/amusing/unusual. I don't recall if
those photographs were called "Picture of the Week", however.
A search of back issues of "Life" magazine (any enthusiastic undergraduates
out there?) from the '40s or '50s is likely to turn up the photo in question.
The description of the photo leads me to believe that the painter is
Salvador Dali.
Brian