But Mr. Lee insisted that it was, and that he had bought it at an auction of cartoon-character paintings in 1965.
His novels, like Gen X and Girlfriend in a Coma, for example, read a bit like a hypochondriac googling the symptoms of late modernity; funny but paranoid portraits of disenfranchised characters, paintings of hyper-capitalist cultures so unsustainable they're doomed to collapse.
Jammed with variously alluring and demonic male and female characters, the paintings are punchy.
Before he left Italy, he had made drawings of street characters and paintings of fashionable horse-riders, but always on a small scale.
The lovers in the video are characters from paintings by a host of artists, including Leonardo, Rubens, Bellini, Peter Christus and Seurat.
A number of Hindu and Muslim families in Kolkata visit Mr Chung's vast dining hall, where gilded Chinese characters and paintings of ancient Chinese sages decorate the walls.
With their larger-than-life characters, his paintings certainly have the vibrancy of nostalgia, but Tull also works with the present, often using his wife as a model.
ANNUAL DREAM HALLOWEEN, a fund-raiser for the Children Affected by AIDS Foundation, with cartoon characters, face-painting, soap-making and refreshments, Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Hammerstein Ballroom, 311 West 34th Street, Manhattan.
"ET... text home... .. 8. Two men who look like characters from Picasso paintings standing in front of a Picasso painting at the Museum of Modern Art.
Whether painting everyday objects or sinister characters, however, his paintings bristle with a deep sense of unease.
