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Stefan and Ping Yi were here, as large as life.

“Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain,” novelist Paul Auster once wrote.

There is as much spiritual intensity as academic rigor in his books, along with a sense that he was trying to capture something as large as life with his words.

And in “The Age of Innocence,” certain of the leading innocents connected with the novel’s adulteries and banking intrigues were decried, in Four Hundred society, as being this pillar, that pretender, or that déclassé—anyhow all drawn as large as life.

When you’ve seen an image in reproduction so many times, it’s almost hallucinatory to encounter the real painting, large as life.