Since moving into the main house she had spent hours in its great marbled reception hall staring at this rich, dark painting.

Its cover art is a dark painting taken during the Star in the Hood promo shoot.

Before the sale, experts said the dark painting was in poor condition.

Although he did dark paintings for a time of his life, his style was mainly shiny and coloured.

It was an unsettling painting, dark and violent.

A dark painting on the wall depicted a stag in full flight from a pack of wolves.

The director turned, paced to one wall, and stared at a dark painting for a long time.

There is a tendency to create very dark paintings hence the title black pictures.

The Russian looked about dourly and stepped across the room, where he became absorbed in a dark medieval painting with little to recommend it.

These are dark paintings from which bright eyes flash hauntingly.