What is the name of this love triangle painting?

April 27, 2008 7:56 PM

Help me remember this painting! The subject is three people in a cafe or club. One (a soldier I think) is checking out a woman across the room. She in turn is checking out another man who happens to be checking out the first. If I recall correctly, a green light is shining down on at least one of the subjects, the gay man. This was possibly painted in Weimar Germany, but I could be wrong. The style certainly fits into that time period. Thank you metafilter.
posted by munchingzombie to media & arts (5 comments total)

I have a vague recollection of a similar painting as well, but a quick search turned up nothing. I believe it's either an Otto Dix piece or one by George Grosz. Hopefully someone else can be more precise.
posted by stagewhisper at 8:55 PM on April 27

From your description of the characters, setting and the carefully studied gazes, I immediately thought of Otto Dix too.
posted by telstar at 9:14 PM on April 27

Thank you both. We are all so close to the answer.
posted by munchingzombie at 6:03 AM on April 28

I absolutely know the painting you're talking about, but can't remember who it's by either. From looking at Otto Dix' work, it doesn't appear to me to be in the same style I remember the painting being in. I remember this painting as being very realist, isn't that right? Dix's work seems to be more surrealist.
posted by Inkoate at 8:23 AM on April 28

I have about a decade of fog separating my memory and the actual painting. But the figures seemed more realist than Dix. But I recall a geometric treatment of the lighting that seems like Grosz's Metropolis.

It seems like there will be a few of us relieved when this is figured out. Thank you all again.
posted by munchingzombie at 11:37 AM on April 28