Three Things: Missed Connections Edition, IV

Time for another set of missed connections, methinks. Nothing like unrequited love to get the pen moving, no?

Bo Bartlett, Open Gate, 2011. Oil on linen. www.bobartlett.com

Henri Matisse, Still Life with Sleeping Woman, 1940. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Marcel Duchamp, Chess Game, 1910. Oil on canvas. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.