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its a creepy looking painting, of that there is no doubt (to me at least).
i dont really think a painting can be haunted, but im open to ideas.
what is the current bid anyway?
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LordWolf ~ The painting was listed and sold in February of 2000.
Hands Resist Him eventually sold for $1,025.00 - first bid was $199.00 - it had a total of 30 bids. I would imagine with the popularity of this painting that it would be worth a lot more now, not merely for its value as a painting but for its value as the now famous "Haunted Ebay Painting".

I like it. But of course I am drawn to paintings as these whether haunted or not.

Thanks for sharing

Reminds me of the old Horror movies and their warnings if you go to see them. Classic. Haunted painting? Seen it on a few TV shows. Just goes to show, you can find anything on Ebay!

interesting painting, It gives a potrayol of life and even after death, haunted pictures of hands claiming the prize love the painting.

The manipulated of the name "haunted painting" would take anyone aback.

Though I was looking at the painting itself and the first feeling I got was "eerie." The child in the painting seemed to stand out above all, if I had not known the painting were "haunted" I would not have thought differantly about it. The child is very... Eerie feeling.

I can tell from the title "Hands Resist Him" that the child's mannerisms are very distraught. As thought he does not like standing next to the doll like figure. Now, if a spirit or soul were trapped within the painting itself, in the likeness of the young boy, then I could surmise that the energy of that trapped soul would indeed fight with the doll like figure, or try to exit the painting itself.

I have seen worse things happen.

Oh, and if this is a "haunted painting", then I would suggest against saving it to your comp or using it as a desktop icon, other wise the "ring" scenerio could happen on a real life basis. No telling what the outcome from that scenerio would be.

last thing i want is for a weird kid to crawl out of my monitor.
i agree with ss tho...it is eerie.
~W~

A chilling thing about the 3rd picture down, if you stare at this pic for a bit, it seems as though the light keeps changing, making the child look almost human then changing back to a drawing. Very strange.

I think it's creepy. I never did like children being portrayed in "darker" paintings or tattoos. They are downright strange. And those hands, well, I don't understand them, but they add to the eerie feeling that the painting portrays. The expressions on the boy's face as well.. Yeap.

Bill tells of how he painted Hands Resist Him in 1972, the boy in the picture being himself, the hands being other lives, the windows/door being a thin veil between waking and dreaming with the small doll like girl being the guide through.

Bill does not know how his painting ended up abandoned as described by the Ebay seller, but he does know a gallery owner where the painting was originally displayed and sold at, and a Los Angeles Times critic, who reviewed the show, were both dead within one year of the painting being shown.

I like the painting. It's the kind of art that I would collect, even w/o knowledge of its history. Re. the accompanying story, I admire the marketing gimmick, and find it amusing. The sellers need to experience some sort of calamity, preferably a death as with the others, to add credibility.

Funnily enough I have seen and read about this picture before, but it was very long ago and I have forgotten the details lol.

However I still find that painting very eerie and I wouldn't want it in my home. I find the hands in the background seem to move sometimes if you stare at it.

Mind you it could be my mind playing tricks on me lol.

The painting is truly fascinating. Although spooky I can't help but wonder if the power of suggestion makes you see more into the painting than there really is.

The artist is alive, so how did the painting end up haunted so to speak?

Its an interesting piece of artwork but when i saw it i kept getting some cold chills & weird vibes. What is the little girl holding in her hands?

Saw this painting on some ghost reality show some time ago, where they actually slow-mo'ed it changing. Although it creeped me out, I don't know that I could believe it was actually changing or just the lighting and our imaginations running away with us. Good thread.

I think that it's just the energy and passion, hopes, dreams, desires that the artist projected into the painting when he held the brush. Things like that actually makes a difference. When one sees something, he/she can sense where the artist is coming from, even if there are some aspects of it that he/she may not understand fully. It is from another's perspective afterall. Yes, the painting gives me the creeps.

The images do indeed have a odd vibe. I gazed into them for several minutes to let them open up some more..
A sympathetic connection to that in between waking and sleeping state was made and just as a sigil, square, or Magickal talisman, the images in this painting can evoke from that place. Not all behind the veil is comforting, and darkness can and will pour into this world from any open gate. That to me is beautiful in all it's horror.

I liked the painting and I am drawn to the stranger things of portraits and such.

But if you do stop and actually stare/look long at it it has an uneasy feeling and despair about it yet.. the painting does show it to be that kind of reflection of the portrait, so I guess it is all with the eye of the beholder. as to how one will percieve it.

lol
its a sort of Rorschach test. i do find both paintings to be very unsettling. quite cool really.
~W~

lol
its a sort of Rorschach test. i do find both paintings to be very unsettling. quite cool really.
~W~

I don't think the hands capture my attention here. I've always been drawn to the "faceless" aspect of paintings or pictures. And I feel the doll has a slightly more sinister feel to it compared to the older one.