When A Painter Says Thanks
Followers of this infrequent blog may recall that I lent a painting ("Icarus") for the retrospective of Daniel Barkley's work held this past spring at the UofT's Hart House gallery (whatever the official name of that gallery is). This week, Mr. Barkley sent me a homemade card to thank me for the lend. Fabulously, homemade by a painter means that the front of the card (a lovely water colour paper stock) featured this original water colour. It's 5x7 and just doubly wonderful because of its size.
(Which also reminds me, Nigel Nolan has also thanked me on a couple of occasions in the form of small sketches or paintings...)
Beats the hell out of Hallmark! :)
posted by Heipel at
8:50 PM
2 Comments:
haha wow
I watched a great episode of BBC Antiques Road Show a couple years back and a woman brought in a small painting and some sketches. Turns out she was a caregiver to an old man who's wife used to be a driver in the 40s and 50s. And she drove for a famous painter. Turns out he was this very important early 20th C. English painter.
The story goes that he gave her a painting one day, and another day he had sketched on the insert card of a Players Cigarette pack. He was about to throw it out, but she said she'd have it, so he gave it to her.
Fast-forward 60 years and there they were. Well it turns out the cigarette pack was a sketch that ended up a painting in the Tate or someplace. And the small painting he gave her was worth hundreds of thousands of pounds because it was from his best period, and it had never been seen or known of.
The BBC folks were amazed, it was one of the most significant finds in the 25 years of the show.
So those wee cards may be worth more, or say more about those artists than the work of theirs which is known.
Hi Steve, I am trying to send a comment on Daniel Barkley. I hope this time with success. I got a similar piece from our Maestro. He is the Best living Canadian painter (maybe not for Canadians, but he is), also a great guy. Check for his new great pieces for St Sebastian show I am curating at CFM Gallery in NYC this May! I would send you an invitation but I do not know how to attach any photos to emails to you. Best, Egon
PS Great photos!!!
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