The story of two oil paintings

30 years ago in Paris in late autumn, the sky overcast. Wind, leaves Montreal dance tired. Avenue on both sides of the Ottoman era stone building grand and imposing, but in this depressed people to feel the autumn wind.
Wrapped in a beige trench coat in a young, messy hair, blue eyes, wander in the Victor Hugo Avenue. He was a thick yellow gate stopped and rang the doorbell. Bronze door that read "MAUVERNAY doctor's office."
Doctor is a kind of middle-aged short man, 50 years old, eyes God.
Some young man with fever, the condition is not serious. Doctor prescribed some medicine and told him to rest for two days, will be good. Young people took the prescription, said the young man hesitated for a few seconds: "Yes. My mother was dying in Montreal and would like to see me one last time, I was very young his father died. But I really have no money to go home now. I Higher Academy of Fine Arts in Canada to study in Paris. "doctor asked:" Paris to Montreal, how much a return ticket? "Young people reported a number. Before he could react, a written doctor handed him a check for that number. Young people are very surprised and said, "how can it?" The doctor said: "You do not waste a minute, and I hope your mother in your eyes quietly bid farewell to this world."
Many months later, the doctor has forgotten about it.
One spring morning, the remains of this young man is still beige windbreaker, still some messy hair. The hands of more than just a big white cloth wrapped things. Physician before a patient away, he saw a young man. Young man said: "Although I did not catch the mother's last look, but I caught up with her funeral. We will See you in heaven. I can not to return for your generosity, this is hard work I spent a few months a painting, you must accept. "
Opened the package, is a great painting, very abstract. A few big blocks of color groups, the tone is dark blue. Doctors think that incomprehensible, but he could not bear to whisk the young man's good intentions, accepted the paintings.
He will not like this picture, put the painting a wall readily against the study. Read and write times, looked up occasionally catch a glimpse of the painting. Gradually the picture seems to become pleasing to the eye up, he began to play like those shades of blue clumps. Slanting afternoon sun one day shine on the painting, the blue color appears faint in the sun floating up, staring at the painting do not know why, he remembered his father died at age 13, think of his life from more than 50 years of age his soul away those, I think of heaven, I think of this world come and go. Suddenly, all thoughts are concentrated in the blue color in, and he liked the painting of a sudden. He took the picture to get the living room, hung straight and in the most prominent wall.
Years later, the young man no longer young, became very famous contemporary Impressionist painters. Montreal Museum of his expensive collection of paintings.
This time he went to a doctor's clinic is not, but his home. The door, saw the picture. He said to the doctor: "You hang up and down the picture upside down!" We all laughed. He took the picture, in turn, in the lower right corner solemnly signed his name. When he forgot to sign the painting. Then the doctor jokingly said, "If you ever spent money, a phone call to the Montreal Museum, they will give money door."
Doctors also have a patient's problem was a strange stomach ulcers. Attacks from time to time, sometimes very serious, even to stomach bleeding, drug almost ineffective, sometimes dead and more. And the general law of ulcer disease is completely different. Doctors baffled.
It is also a painter. Later, doctors left a mind, that every time he sold a piece of his paintings, the ulcer disease will attack it, just as he cut from a piece of his flesh. But he can only sell paintings for a living, not to sell would not work.
How to cure his disease? Doctors thinking hard about a good policy. He found a few doctors to be good friends, suggest that you come up with a sum of money,Oil Paintings, set up a fund to support the artist, where he can not sell paintings for a living. Painter to thank the doctors, they often give these works, or give their friends. At this point no longer His ulcer disease is no attack.
He put up his efforts to an embodiment, entitled "Love" gave him a very large painting respected doctor. Is a light blue background, there are three groups of characters on the screen: not entirely realistic, but we can see the outline of characters. A group of mothers take their children to express the maternal love; a group of men and women are embracing, expression of love; the other group is a group of people to express the friendship.
This is a very famous painter, who took part in the Foundation doctors will not regret their initial donation.
I was fortunate to have seen the two paintings, which is in Lausanne, Switzerland, president of the office wall. I was then president of the doctor. He was no longer practicing medicine, 60 years old, founded the development of new drugs of this specialized business. It is now 80-year-old, still vibrant. These two paintings, he said, and accompanied by office, he felt very happy.
Work for this boss, I feel quite lucky.