THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #259 (12/31/10) Gustave Courbet, French Travelers Stopping to Insult Each Other’s Beards, 1854 Oil on canvas
MASTERPIECE #2424 Artist Unknown “Before You Say Anything About the Mustache, Let Me Remind You I’m Carrying a Firearm,” 1846 Oil on canvas
A PRICELESS HOLIDAY CLASSIC (2010) Niko Pirosmanashvili, Georgian Happy Holidays from the Stalin Quintuplets, 1909 Oil on oilcloth
MASTERPIECE #1059 Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian “You Call That a Mustache? Please.”, 1903 Oil on canvas
MASTERPIECE #873 Gerard ter Borch, Dutch Initiation Ceremony for the Secret Order of the Moustache, 1648 Oil on copper
MASTERPIECE #803 Henrik Weber, Hungarian Composer Mihaly Mosonyi, Whose Beard Has Given His Wife Fleas, 1840 Oil on canvas
MASTERPIECE #421 Edwin Blashfield, American Winners of This Year’s Fastest Beard-Growing Contest (Karl Marx 1st; Thomas Edison 2nd; FDR 3rd), 1894 Oil on canvas