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El Sombrero es Rojo

Steve Justice Painting Title: El Sombrero es Rojo SOLD Material: oil on canvas Size: 30x72 Year: 2000 This painting is a distortion of a Jack Ruby sketch. It resembled, to me, a basic Spanish lesson when I stopped painting so as to show it, hence its title.Title: El Sombrero es Rojo
Material: oil on canvas
Size: 30×72
Year: 2000 SOLD

Someone had to do it.  That son of a bitch killed my president.  – Jack Ruby

This painting is an elongated version of a detail from my first painting, “Surreal Thing”, depicting JFK’s assassin’s assassin, Jack Ruby.  I put the subject to service here as a basic textbook Spanish lesson, “El sombrero es rojo.”  “The hat is red.”  I can’t brush up on your Espanol for you, you know.  Only you can do that.

This painting was shown before it was completed, in the interest of opportunity, and sold shortly thereafter, so the painting remains open-ended, which is not the same as being nonfinito.  It now enjoys a place of prestige in the growing Cool Antolic Collection of Art (CACA).

Otra vez, repeta clase:  “El sombrero es rojo …”

 

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