That picture, if I recall correctly, was shown at the end of “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, a 1945 MGM production with Hurd Hatfield and George Sanders. It was the only part of the movie in color.
By the Chicago master of "hyper-realism" Ivan Albright.
It hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago, along with another haunting work, which is also strangely appropriate to this thread.
It is called "The Door" but Albright had another name for it:
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"That Which I Should Have Done, I Did Not Do"