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Usage examples of paintings.

He was an art dealer as well as an artist, and paintings hung in almost every room, even where I slept.

In the far corner, opposite the table and window, a door led to a storeroom, filled with paintings and canvases, chairs, chests, dishes, bedpans, a coat rack and a row of books.

There were no paintings at all, but the clean scent of linseed oil and the musk of the earth pigments.

Van Ruijven tried too hard when he looked at paintings, with his honeyed words and studied expressions.

Although I valued tidiness over most things, I knew from his other paintings that there should be some disorder on the table, something to snag the eye.

He questioned me about the value of things in the house on the Oude Langendijck, of the pearls and mantle in the painting, of the pearl-encrusted jewelry box and what it held, of the number and size of paintings that hung on the walls.

As I waited I studied the paintings he had hung on the back wall that would form part of the concert painting.

He used what he wanted for his paintings, without considering the result.

There were still paintings hanging everywhere on the walls, some I recognized, others I did not.

The ivory-inlaid cupboard was there, and the table and Spanish leather chairs, and the paintings of his family and hers.

Anyway, the beauty of rounded flesh has been well explored in those paintings since it is usually the wealthy who wish to have themselves painted.

That confusion was fully reflected in the paintings stacked around the walls, all of which I saw were painted on to wooden panels.

Not much money, trying to make ends meet but I kept working, sold just enough paintings to get by.

Those mind paintings were nothing against the reality of the woman who came in through the door, smiling at her husband and glancing for the briefest moment at me.

He signed his paintings with his first name and that is the name by which he chose always to be known once he became famous.