Adolf Reich, In Thought Beige but her legs are crossed

but her legs are crossed while his are certainly not

a lone traveller is walking home along a path worn by time

A charming 19th-century oil on canvas depicting a gentleman fishing before a crop of cottages

and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal

115 achieved for ‘Bal Tabarin’ (51cm x 65cm) in 2007

Adolf Reich, In Thought Beige but her legs are crossedA skilfully rendered portrait of an older gentleman by Austrian artist, Adolf Reich (1887 1963). While resting his bearded chin on his right hand, the subject looks ponderously across the rims of his rickety old spectacles. Reich possessed an extraordinary ability to capture the smallest of details with the utmost of care and his style was entirely traditional. In 1916, he attended the Academy of Arts in Vienna and elected to paint in a classical