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The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Presidentman talk · contribs Random Picture of the Day (Talkback) 22:03, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Portrait of Madame Cézanne

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Portrait of Madame Cézanne

Created/expanded by TonyTheTiger (talk). Self nom at 13:42, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

  • I believe Cezanne is quoted talking about his own conception of the "outline" of his painting; not about a diagrammatic "outline" by an art historian analyzing his work decades later. The hook could be the following:
(ALT1)... "that Roy Lichtenstein's Portrait of Madame Cézanne is an ironic quotation of the art historian Erle Loran's outline of the original Cézanne portrait (pictured)?" Riggr Mortis (talk) 05:12, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
That is fine by me.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 12:41, 17 May 2012 (UTC)