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I REALLY hope someone can help me figure out anything about this painting i have. I picked it up at a garage sale about 10 years ago in San Antonio. I saw it and fell in love with it. I asked about it, but the women selling it said she just knew that her husband (past on) got it while he was in the army. I know i have seen the style before (probably in art class) when i was growing up. I could never figure out who it was by, so i just left it alone.................Until now. I was watching No Country for Old Men and then BAM, there is a scene with the exact same painting in it. So now i am on a mission to find something out about it or the artist. I really hope someone knows something.

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If nobody is sure about the artist, can anyone else name the style or era?

John

It kind of seems like "School of Paris" to me, e.g. Bernard Buffet. I don't have any suggestions on who "E. Man." could be, though.

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E. Man is what i thought the sig looks like also. I did a search in a artist database and didn't come up with anybody who had a last name Man. I would of past it off as just some random piece that some nobody artist did, but then it pops up in the movie. For anybody that has seen the movie, you know it's packed with symbology and hidden meanings. That painting was picked for that scene for a reason.

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Giving this another shot, anybody?

Peace,

JG

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I refuse to give up.

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I will not give up. Someone will know.

Peace,

JG

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Try and try again. If only i could get ahold of the art director.

Eirene

Here is an interview with Josh Brolin regarding the paintings of the characters.
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"We did these great paintings of our own characters," Brolin explained.

George Yepes, a painter and a friend of Rodriguez, took photographs of the actors' faces, Brolin says. "He would outline the paintings. We would come in and do the fill-ins. Then (Yepes and Rodriguez) would do one layer. Then we'd come in and do another layer after it dried. Then Robert would do another layer and some of his own stuff. Then George would come in and do some of his own stuff. They gave us those paintings as wrap gifts.'"

At least, theoretically they received the paintings as wrap gifts.

"I haven't gotten mine yet, even though he gave it to me,'" Brolin says. "I just wrote to him... and I was like, `Where the (expletive) is my painting?' And he goes, `I like your painting too much. I'll give it to you, but I'm having a tough time letting it go.'

"It's a great painting," Brolin continues, exuding no small trace of pride. "It's a really good painting."
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Perhaps if you contact George Yepes via his website he might have some information for you.

http://www.georgeyepes.com/George_Yepes/Home.html

Email - GEORGE@GEORGEYEPES.COM

Eirene

Scratch that.. ..wrong movie. Was thinking about this later and thought...hmmm..... why would they be painting pictures of themselves as zombies?...duh...Grindhouse.

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LOL. You had me scratching my head! Awesome movie by the way. Thanks for trying.

Eirene

You know there was a comic book in the seventies by this name also.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Man ...now I'm grasping.

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Back for another shot and another set of eyes.

Peace,

JG

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Looks like Man to me, but that is very hard to research.

Can you give us more details about the painting...is it oil on canvas? Is the canvas stapled or nailed? I am supposing there are no clues on the back? Maybe a closer shot of the sig from a different angle?
Good luck!

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Sorry I'm seeing this 4 years later, but could it be "Edouard Manet"? E Man for short.

John

No, definitely not Manet.