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From: annie@cow.net (Matt Bridges)
Subject: Re: ID art challenge
Date: 1996/02/02
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lamouret@pizarro.dgp (Alexis Lamouret) writes:

> In article <4ehfrc$143c@news.gate.net>, mullen@gate.net (Allen Mullen) writes
> |>    Can you identify the following ascii picture? It's based on a famous
> |> painting.
> |>                                                                           
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> |> 
> |> Allen
> 
> It looks like an portrait of himself by Vincent Van Gogh, but I don't know if
> it has a special name (apart from "autoportrait").
> 
> Alexis.
> 
>    ___  __    |_|\o  Alexis Lamouret. Post-doctoral fellow
>   / _ \/_/ __ |_|V|  Dynamics Graphics Project (Toronto, Canada).
>  / _  / )\/ / |_|-+  e.mail: lamouret@dgp.utoronto.ca, Tel/FAX: (416) 978-518
> /_//_/_/_/\_\ |_|/   (old) URL: http://w3imagis.imag.fr/~Alexis.Lamouret
> 
> 
> 

Isn't this by renette magritte?

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