Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent

Notifications can be managed in browser preferences.

Games: Details competition

Tom Lubbock
Sunday 28 November 1999 00:02 GMT
Comments

In which painting by which painter can you find this rubble?

Answers on a postcard, to arrive by Friday 3 December: DETAILS 461, IoS, 1 Canada Square, London E14 5DL. Three winners will each receive a bottle of champagne

Details 459 came from Daumier's The Wrestler - or The Wrestlers (c1853). Really it should be called both. The pathos of this image involves the juxtaposition. There are the two wrestlers in the arena, bound together in action. And there's the lone foreground wrestler, off-stage, waiting. The stress falls on his built-up, top-heavy, strong-man's physique: a body visibly dedicated to, and marked by, a particular use, which it isn't now performing. Moral: how we become identical with our uses. The picture belongs to the Ordrupgaard Collection, Copenhagen; at the moment it is in the Daumier show at the Grand Palais, Paris.

The first three correct entries came from: L E Blackmore, London WC2; P Tilling, Coleraine; and J Mann, Sale

Join our commenting forum

Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies

Comments

Thank you for registering

Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in