Donald Roller Wilson

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RICHARD (TENSE, WITH HIS EYES POPPING...)
20x16
oil
$29,500

RICHARD (TENSE, WITH HIS EYES POPPING, AND ONLY A BREATH AWAY FROM TRANSFORMING INTO HIS OTHER SELF - HIS ALTER EGO, HIS HALF SISTER, BETH - A SAFE HAVEN WHICH AFTER ALL, HAD WON HIM THE CATEGORY “BEST EVENING GOWN” DURING THE 1938 MISS DOG AMERICA PAGEANT”)...

SEEING A VISION OF THE HOLY VIRGIN IN DISGUISE AS A HOUSE FLY DURING A PAUSE IN HER FLIGHT FROM EGYPT...(SHE HAD WARNED RICHARD, EARLIER IN THE DAY IN PASSING - SPEAKING DIRECTLY FROM HER TINY LIPS - EVEN WITHOUT MOVING THEM - BUT NEVERTHELESS, ENTERING THE INFORMATION INTO RICHARD’S LIMITED MIND)...

THAT HE SHOULD “LONG” OIL FIELD RIGGING EQUIPMENT (IN PLACE OF “SHORTING” BELLIES)...

BUT RICHARD, FOOL WHICH HE COULD BE, EVEN IF CIRCUMCISED, HAD DECIDED SINCE BOTH WERE OILY ISSUES, THEY WERE INTERCHANGEABLE...(BUT WAS HE EVER WRONG?)...

OIL ON CANVAS
20” H. X 16” W. (UNFRAMED CANVAS SIZE)
27” H. X 23” W. (FRAMED)

GILDED LETTERS ON LINER OF FRAME READ EXACTLY AS FOLLOWS:

(top edge)
RICHARD SHORTED TEN

(right edge)
THOUSAND SHARES OF PORK

(bottom edge)
BELLIES, AND THEY GOT

(left edge)
UP PAST URANUS AT THE BELL

SIGNED

(LOWER EDGE)
DONALD ROLLER WILSON 2008/03