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From: lamouret@pizarro.dgp (Alexis Lamouret)
Subject: Re: ID art challenge
Date: 1996/01/29
Message-ID: <1996Jan29.163720.24602@jarvis.cs.toronto.edu>
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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.

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