Henri Matisse Blue Nude I 1952 painting

Henri Matisse Blue Nude I 1952 paintingCassius Marcellus Coolidge A Friend in Need paintingEdvard Munch Puberty 1894 painting
It’s a terrific pendant.”“Glass eyes aren’t really glass, you know. They’re thin plastic shells, and the iris is hand-painted on the inside. Way cool.”“Way, “Corky agreed.“Had an artist friend make this little glass sphere to hold weapon with which he had shot Rolf Reynerd’s mother in the foot.Considering , Corky hadn’t trusted the ice pick to do the jobthe eye, stop it deteriorating. That’s the story, gimme my twenty grand.”Corky passed to him the plastic-wrapped packet of cash.As he had done with his initial twenty thousand on the first of their three previous meetings, Hokenberry turned away from Corky and took the bundle to the table in the adjacent dinette area to count every crisp hundred-dollar bill.Corky shot him three times in the back.When Hokenberry hit the floor, the bungalow shook.The big man’s fall was much louder than the shots because the pistol was fitted with a sound suppressor that Corky had purchased [357] from an anarchic survivalist with deep ties to an aggressive group of anti-veal activists who manufactured the suppressors both for their own use and as a fund-raising activity. Each of the shots made a quiet sound like someone pronouncing the word supper with a lisp.This was the