HiLo Set Dressing
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November 19, 2010
In Billion Dollar Brain (1967, d. Ken Russell), ex-MI5 private eye Harry Palmer (Michael Caine, in horn-rimmed glasses) decorates one wall of his London flat with a collage of high- and lowbrow imagery: a nudie magazine centerfold, a Bogart headshot, a single panel from Batman, and… a print of a still life. Looks like a 17th-century Dutch Golden Age “breakfast and food table” still life, doesn’t it? But which painting is it? Who is the artist? Help me out, readers.