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They come in at 21:35, leave at 21:37, reappear at 21:38 as Danny climbs up, and then vanish again at 21:43 as the shot whip-zooms on Danny’s face. Given what I recently discovered about the mystery Monahan piece (the whole 42/37 thing), I’m wondering if some smaller version of that kind of phenomenon could be going on here.
IDENTITY
Three landscapes beneath a ski poster on the centre wall behind Danny here. Next to impossible to ID. The leftmost one is never not completely blurry, and the one in the middle is completely generic. Only the rightmost one bears some resemblance to this Tom Thomson piece, Moonlight and Birches.
Since discovering the Taos piece, I’ve begun to wonder if these might be more from that side of the world.
Update: I’ve lately been doing a tonne of searching through Colorado ski posters, and I’ve noticing a bunch of postcard-type images that resemble these pieces, so they might not even be paintings! But I’ve also been doing an even more grotesque amount of searching through landscapes, and I’ve found some near-identical pieces for both of these. The main problem with the yellowy one is that none feature that dark blob at the middle of the bottom…
…and the main problem with my best guess for the middle image…
…is just a lot of little details that aren’t quite right.
And my gut tells me their obscurity would almost certainly suggest they’re by the same artist, or by artists in a collective. And not just three random pieces from all over the place. I could be wrong. My gut is frequently wrong about these things. But it just seems too cruel for him to have done it any other way.
Next art reference: Ski Broadmoor Poster
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