An art interlude

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​Fellow Mehtizens, hear me. This is a hurlyburly season, a time of fraught cookery, panicky acquisitiveness, pie-fights, ill tempers and sudden sharp knee-blows to the groin.

Sit back, take a deep breath.

Dim the lights.

Roll a doobie or say an Our Father — whichever you prefer — and walk with me as we enjoy a few little-known Russian paintings of the 19th & 20th century.

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Ivan Shishkin (1832-1898) — Rye Field

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Ivan Shishkin again – Rich Broad Gully

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Ilya Mashkov (1881-1944) — Landscape with a Pond

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Nicholas de Stael (1914-1955) — Paysage de Vaucluse #3

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Nikolai Timkov (1912-1993) — Russian Winter (Hoarfrost)

There now! Don’t you feel better? I certainly do.