17 August 2011

The Painter Rutting with a Goat: Robert Lenkiewicz, 1983

Media: Oil on board
Size: Tondo. 55 cm diameter

Based on a satyr sculpture by Joseph Nollekins in the British Museum. The background shows Devonport Dockyard in Plymouth - Lenkiewicz often remarked that Plymouth was "trapped between the Dockyard and the Methodist Church". The scene is a pun on the artist's birthsign - Capricorn.


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