Donald Roller Wilson

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NAUGHTY BETTY...HAVING EXPERIENCED THE MISFORTUNE
18x12
oil
$23,000

NAUGHTY BETTY...HAVING EXPERIENCED THE MISFORTUNE OF COUNTLESS ATTEMPTS AT RATIFYING A SUCCESSFUL BAT MITZVAH...(AT TIMES DUE TO THE HOLY VIRGIN’S MANIFESTATION OF INSURMOUNTABLE OBSTACLES...CONDUCTING HER ANNOYING INTERFERENCES IN DISGUISE AS A REFRIGERATOR, A HOUSE FLY, OR AT TIMES, A CADILLAC CONVERTIBLE WITH HER TOP DOWN AND HER DAMN HORN STUCK)...WOULD SUFFER YET AN ADDITIONAL FAILURE...BUT, THIS GO ROUND, DUE TO SEMI-NUDITY...

AND HAVING INDEPENDENTLY CONDUCTED HER FORMER, FAILED BAT MITZVAHS AS A MARTYRED “PRINCESS”, FUNCTIONING ALONE, HER HALF-BROTHER JIMMY HAD SUGGESTED THAT SHE MAY EXPERIENCE A MORE VIABLE SUCCESS IF SHE WOULD COMBINE HER UPCOMING FRESH ATTEMPT TO BAT MITZVAH HERSELF WITH THAT OF HER HALF-SISTER, LITTLE MITSY’S FIRST STAB AT A SUCCESSFUL GO-ROUND OF HER OWN; THAT THE EXPENSES OF THE COMBINED PARTY COULD ALSO BE KEPT LESS STAGGERING...

AND - SO THE DAY CAME, AND THE DECORATIONS AND THE FOOD AND THE ATMOSPHERE WERE CHARGED WITH A POSITIVE ENERGY NOT BEFORE EXPERIENCED BY BETTY...

BUT DID IT WORK? ABSOLUTELY NOT...AND POOR LITTLE MITSY BECAME LAUNCHED ON HER OWN FAILED PATH TO MATURITY WHICH WOULD BECOME THE EXACT COUNTERPART TO BETTY’S...

AND BOTH GIRLS WOULD BECOME FOREVER MAINTAINED IN A KIND OF SUSPENDED STATE OF MIND...

SOMEWHERE IN A STATE JUST SHORT OF GRACE...

MEDIUM

OIL ON CANVAS

SIZE

18” H. X 12” W. (UNFRAMED CANVAS)
26” H. X 20” W. (FRAMED)

FRAME IS MUSEUM QUALITY, CONSIDERED AN INSEPARABLE PART OF THE ART. FRAME HAS BEEN DESIGNED BY THE ARTIST, SPECIFICALLY FOR THE PAINTING, AND IS CONSTRUCTED OF HAND CARVED BASS WOOD, TRADITIONALLY WATER GILDED WITH 23KT GOLD OVER A BASE OF GESSO AND RED BOLE; FLAT PANELS ARE POLYCHROMED WITH NATURAL SIENNA
KEYED TO THE BROWN TONES IN THE PAINTING, AND ARE DECORATED WITH GILDED FLORAL GARLANDS. CORNERS OF FRAME ARE “EARED” - SIMILAR TO AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SPANISH MOTIF. LETTERED LINER READS EXACTLY AS FOLLOWS:

(top edge)
NAUGHTY BETTY
(right edge)
AND LITTLE MITSY FORGOT
(bottom edge)
TO PUT ON THEIR
(left edge)
TOPS FOR THE BAT MITZVAH

SIGNED

(UPPER RIGHT EDGE)
DONALD ROLLER WILSON 2008/19