2012/09/25

Backgammon in Good Old Times

Backgammon in a Tavern by the Dutch genre Golden Age painter Jan Steen.




2012/09/14

Brigitte Bardot Gambling

Brigitte Bardot gambling in "Shalako" a 1968 British western film directed by Edward Dmytryk.




2012/09/04

Top of the Heap

Top of the Heap by A.A. Fair a georgeous cover by Robert McGinnis.


2012/07/01

The Fortune Teller

"The Fortune Teller" by the French Impressionist painter Jean Frédéric Bazille.

2012/06/25

Lucky Luke vs. Pat Poker

Lucky Luke drawing against Pat Poker. Not surprising that the villain has hidden the ace of spades.

2012/06/19

Modern American Art

"The Checker Players" (1947) by the American painter Jacob Lawrence. Leisure for the working class.

2012/06/11

Queen to Play

Sandrine Bonnaire playing chess in the 2011 film "Queen to Play". Chess becomes here a resource of emancipation.

2012/06/04

Symbol of Luck

Cover of a science fiction magazine probably from the good old fiefties. It seems that the cloverleaf will stay a sign of good luck.

2012/05/30

Good Old Times

"The Chess Players" (1910) by the French history painter Adolphe Alexander Lesrel. Lesrel idealizes here the good old times: music, good wine and a chess game with friends.

2012/05/24

Cool Elke Sommer

Elke Sommer cool gambling, but unfortunately I have no idea which film from that scene is.