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sheshe2

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Sat Jan 14, 2017, 04:57 PM Jan 2017

Painting Of Michelle And Young Sasha Obama Is Making Us Yearn For 2008




Following Barack Obama’s stunning farewell address Tuesday night, lovesick Americans took to social media to bid farewell to the exceptional first family. The New Museum joined in, posting a particularly emotional 2008 oil painting by Elizabeth Peyton.


The work, titled “Michelle and Sasha Obama Listening to Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention August 2008,” depicts just that, capturing in Peyton’s distinctly effusive and whirly aesthetic the First Lady with a then 7-year-old Sasha resting in her lap.


More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/michelle-sasha-obama-painting_us_587668e3e4b05b7a465cf25a?section=us_black-voices

I remember watching and seeing this. Stunning portrait.
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