"Fallen Angel with Red Beads in its Hair"

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142 cm wide x 92 cm tall

Oil on Canvas

PROVENANCE: On hand at artist’s studio. Signed R01-23 on front bottom right. Artists seal and Certificate of Authenticity in Sleeve on back. See Description below for more

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142 cm wide x 92 cm tall

Oil on Canvas

PROVENANCE: On hand at artist’s studio. Signed R01-23 on front bottom right. Artists seal and Certificate of Authenticity in Sleeve on back. See Description below for more

142 cm wide x 92 cm tall

Oil on Canvas

PROVENANCE: On hand at artist’s studio. Signed R01-23 on front bottom right. Artists seal and Certificate of Authenticity in Sleeve on back. See Description below for more

Semi Abstract Nude

“Fallen Angel with Red Beads in its Hair” was started back in 2001. I was living in my army barracks on Fort Campbell, in Kentucky. I had drawn a doodle in a psychology class about a year prior in 2000. I had always liked the sketch that I did on my psychology notes.

I remember hanging on to them, shoving them in my art folder of things to deal with later. For whatever reason I combined that sketch and this nude figure together on a landscape to create this painting.The sky has got some really heavy paint in it and the ground and everything else is very thinly painted.

As with a lot of paintings, this piece was about 90% finished and I never knew what to do with it. It even hung in a show unfinished and framed. It has a frame made of wood that’s about 300-year-old. I knew this framer named Ted, and Ted would go hiking in the oldest woods he could find, sometimes off in another state way in the mountains.

He would find old, dilapidated structures from hundreds of years ago. I mean like overgrown foundations that he would damn near do archaeology work on. He would find wood that had been pitched well and he would drag the remnants out of the woods with him. He made a frame for this piece, and several more frames for me. In 2023 I decided to finish this piece finally, I had been putting it off for a while and the time seemed right.

The psychology sketch needed to be tweaked up, and the head area of the figure needs to be finished as well. I'm attaching two pics; one how it sat for almost 20 years and the other is the completed piece. I got the title from the tumultuous guy and the beauty and the figure. For some reason it is very hard to sell a nude. Not sure why nobody wants them.

I feel it is a very tasteful pose and I do not see it being very threatening to anyone. The piece has both a painterly and sketchy feel to it. It has been with me for 22 years and I have grown rather attached to it. I used to build my own stretchers and gesso my own canvases, this is from that era. The stretcher was designed by me and was built heavy to not warp.

This painting shows that I can actually draw realistic things, I just choose to paint what I want, not what is wanted.