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 | | This one, over the dining room door, gives him macabre dining companions--a witch-like old woman stirring her soup with a large spoon and smiling horribly, seemingly oblivious to the skeleton man slobbering over the table on her left. |
 | | "La Soupe" (1903)--another blue period piece, powerfully depicting a mother, flatfooted, bent over with cares, almost in a trance as she carries a bowl of steaming soup in both hands, like a sacrifice--against which bulk her tiny daughter leaps, reaching to receive the soup, back leg extended back, forming a perfect and holy triangle. |
 | | With white soup bowl in a spread hand, she looks with concentration at the soup she's about to spoon into her fragile mouth. |
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