Portrait de Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Claude Lefèbvre, 1665-1666. Louvre Lens, exposition “Charles Le Brun, peintre du Roi Soleil”. Provenance: musée national des château de Versailles et de Trianon.
With this retablo, I’d like to thank Saint Jude Thaddeus for all the times he has saved me from death. I always entrust myself to him because I know I’m a hard case.
This is a “plein air” painting which means I set up my easel right across the street of this Chase bank in my city and painted it like it had caught fire. The police questioned me on the spot. Three weeks later Homeland Security was knocking on the door to my home. The question they kept asking me was “Do you hate these banks?” I can honestly say yes.
And I just think this is the greatest artist statement I’ve ever read.
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