The Yellow Scale by Franz Kupka

A painting by Franz Kupka, a Czech avant-garde painter living in Paris.

The painting is a mixture of realism and abstraction. Called The Yellow Scale,

it depicts a portrait, but the painting technique consists of a feast of violent 

slashes of yellow impasto. This was a work of the transitional stage of Kupka’s

oeuvre when he moved from an impressionistic style to the world of abstraction.

I LOVE the either extremely bored, annoyed, or just had an orgasm

(with a self rolled cigarette, no doubt) look on the man's face.

His name was Charles Baudelaire, the French decadent poet,

based on one of Nadar’s daguerreotype photographs.