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Donald Roller Wilson
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JACK...HAVING BEEN BORN...
6"H. X 10"W. (UNFRAMED) oil
$13,500
JACK...HAVING BEEN BORN WITH AN ERECTION...THE “PROBLEM” HAVING BEEN ONE OF GENETICS (AS OPPOSED TO AROUSAL)...WAS UNDERSTOOD AND FORGIVEN...(PERHAPS EVEN CAUSED)... BY GOD... AND ON THAT REGRETTABLE DAY WHEN HE (JACK) WAS WITNESSED STANDING ADJACENT TO HIS HALF BROTHER RICHARD (WHO, FOR SOME REASON, MOST LIKELY GENETIC - BUT DEBATABLE)...HAD ELECTED TO WEAR HIS SISTER, BETH’S - DRESS...THE COMPLEXITY OF THE OCCURRENCE HAD CAUSED BOTH BOY’S EYES TO POP... AND, RUMOR WAS THAT GOD’S EYES HAD ALSO POPPED, BUT THERE WAS NO REAL DOCUMENTATION... MEDIUM OIL ON GESSO PANEL SIZE 6” H. X 10” W. (UNFRAMED PANEL) 11” H. X 15” W. (FRAMED) FRAME IS MUSEUM QUALITY, CONSIDERED AN INSEPARABLE PART OF THE ART. FRAME HAS BEEN SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR THE PAINTING BY THE ARTIST, AND IS CONSTRUCTED OF HAND CARVED BASS WOOD, TRADITIONALLY WATER GILDED WITH 23KT GOLD OVER A BASE OF GESSO AND RED BOLE. CARVED LETTERS ON LINER OF FRAME READ EXACTLY AS FOLLOWS: (top edge) RICHARD WORE HIS (right edge) SISTER’S (bottom edge) DRESS AND IT GOT (left edge) JACK OFF SIGNED (LEFT EDGE) DONALD ROLLER WILSON 2007/16
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