The Crying Boy Painting

[JonRB]

When i was a kid we had a painting in the front room and i think it was called The Crying Boy. My Mam always said that every council house had this painting in the 70's and that it was taken down because it was cursed and if you kept it your house would burn down. The Beautiful South used the painting and adapted it for the cover of their album Blue Is The Colour. Who is the painting by? Where can i get a copy? and was it true about houses burning down that owned this painting. Cheers.

[jno]

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[MrsBadely]

You must have been very common. Other paintings that common people had in the '70s, were the blue woman and the sad clown.

I had a common friend at school and she had the '80s equivalent painting up in her house - The Wings of Love.