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Sit!: The Dog Portraits of Thierry Poncelet

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M.Poncelet's "aristochiens" are hilarious and skillfully and, yes, artistically well done. There are about 70 paintings shown in the book and is a delight. But the diamond-studded collar on this book is the wonderfully creative writing by Bruce McCall. His little vignettes on the subject of each painting are a falling down delight. A grand sense of humor and an even grander sense of history and literary styles of the past make his contribution to this book a true masterpiece. While dog lovers will appreciate the book, even lowly cat people will enjoy the wit, style and imagination of Sit!: The Dog Portraits of Thierry Poncelet. Move over Poirot; Belgium has a new and better representative!

My mother lent this book out many years ago and never got it back, so I bought this one for her Christmas gift. The artist, Thierry Poncelet, buys old portraits at sales and paints dogs' heads over the faces, and Bruce McCall writes short paragraphs about the lives of the dog/people in the portraits as if they were actual people. It's a hilarious book and the dog-people are often prone to all sorts of scandalous canine behavior! This would be a good gift for a dog lover.