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I've written about this work in Memories; what a day it was somehow or other bridging many years of my life.

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"Sash Window Landscape"

(Working Title - Work in progress)

Painting with a constructed window frame - 49.5" x 38"

Oil on Canvas.

In the Testament of Orphée by Jean Cocteau 'our hero' encounters a glazier once he has passed through the looking glass; he meets him 'backwards' in a way as he leaves Hades. Every time I have watched the movie their encounter has pleased me though there's more to it than that.

The statement " The ambition of ghosts is to be seen" was made by Jane Graves; she laughed uproariously when I replied, "I much prefer a quiet corner where I can sit in the shadows with my gloomy thoughts."

"The ambition of ghosts is to be seen"

2 Rectangles - 43" x 27"

Oil on Canvas.

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I have painted nine profiles of Nefertiti after looking for a long time at Giovanni Bellini's portrait of the Doge of Venice in the National Gallery. I have never seen the bust of Nefertiti in Berlin but I did once have half a dozen post cards of her in a drawer.

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Nefertiti

9 Rectangles of 17" x 21"

Oil on Canvas.

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There is a story attached to this almost finished work concerning David Hilbert and Emmy Noether. A mathematicians like himself Emmy wished, through teaching, to make a living and share her gift; alas being a woman and Jewish to boot found employment hard to find. David let her lecture in the polytechnic where he worked under his name; as with his 'infinite hotel' there is always room for one more even when the rooms are all taken.

Hilbert's Hotel

7 Rectangles - 18" x 18"

Oil on Canvas.

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Albertine - Painting

Three paintings begun some time ago when I was reading Marcel Proust's great novel 'A la recherche du temps perdu' and heard a physicist's question, "Where is the past?" I find it quite a comfort to think that time might turn out to be in more than one place.

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Albertine

3 Rectangles - 72" x 60"

Oil on Canvas.

The 2nd two rectangles (shown below) are close to completion and can be viewed as a triptych with the finished painting as one complete set by clicking here.