If any person or any entity holds copyrights to the painting you must have their permission to use it.
Its a painting anybody can tell look at the ears of the cover
Most cookbooks have a picture of food on the cover so that would seem to be the way to go (maybe include a picture of the author as well)
Eldest
I saw your question about the Hershey plate with the pix from the cover of their 1934 chocolate cookbook. Are you looking to buy one? I have one.
He was commissioned to. His famous cover for the Velvet Underground & Nico record is actually not a painting but a silkscreen print.
He means the black widow she only bought the picture not the frame to cover the portrait The scream
Spray painting
Yes, it is a painting byFrançois-Edouard Picot.
Revista Semana is a weekly magazine based in Columbia. It became famous when it depicted a picture of Fidel Castro on the cover of one of the issues. The magazine was shut down later.
A Picture.
a picture of rocks or minerals
The painting is called Nightfall Down the Thames by Atkinson Grimshaw For info about why Faithless chose it, see:http://www.creativematch.co.uk/viewnews/?94439