Creating the oil flower paintings was a challenge for her, particularly when the photo she was trying to paint had more than one flower and one of them was somewhat blurry.

The paintings, Picasso’s “Tête” and Chagall’s “L’homme en prière”, were stolen from an art collector in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 2010 and are worth $900,000.

The Art Works in Flannery O’Connor’s Attic In an old Georgia mansion, a team of the writer’s devotees found a dusty wooden box: inside were two dozen of her never-seen oil paintings.