Scream © 1995 Michael J. Jackson © 1995 MJJ Productions Inc. One of my favourite MJ videos/songs; it perfectly reflects what it is like being focussed in the waking state and being Black and having every little bigoted shitwit projecting their racially predatory shrapnel onto you… Alas, such moments for moi are ever only fleeting […]
Etching printed in black ink on cream-coloured antique laid paper 24.3 x 15.6 cm c. 1700s Sir Anthony van Dyck Provenance: Permanent Collection Frick Collection, New York City. ______________________________________________________________________________ ©2013-2026 Arvin da Brgha. All Rights Reserved.
Oil on Panel 18.3 x 13.8 Inches c. 1600 Otto van Veen Provenance: Permanent Collection Rubenshuis, Antwerp. http://www.rubenshuis.be/Museum_Rubenshuis_EN At the time of this painting, I was incarnate, female and exceptionally beautiful. I was then a muse of both Otto van Veen and later his famous student, Sir Peter Paul Rubens. Apparently, owing to his ‘shortcomings’, […]
Oil on canvas 26.5 x 20.0 cm © 2014 Wim Heldens Provenance: Private collection. http://www.wimheldens.com/ _______________________________________________________________________________ © 2013-2026 Arvin da Brgha. All Rights Reserved.
Oil on canvas 1623 35.94 × 27.87 Inches c. 1623 Sir Peter Paul Rubens. Provenance: Collection National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Sir Peter Paul was/is a cadre mate of mine and Merlin’s. He is in entity two to our being in entity six, cadre 1, greater cadre 7, pod 414. Prior to his departure for Italy, […]
Oil on Canvas 2.66 x 2.07 m ca 1635 Sir Anthony van Dyck Provenance: Musée du Louvre http://www.louvre.fr/en ____________________________________________________________________________ © 2013-2025 Arvin da Brgha. All Rights Reserved.
Serigraph 30 x 40 Inches Edition: 73 © 2007 Robert Davidson Provenance: 9/73 Art collection Arvin da Braga. http://robertdavidson.ca/ That, indeed, is the count of my serigraph of this marvellous gem. I am also beginning to favour his son, Ben Davidson – another fine Haida artist. __________________________________________________________________________ © 2013-2025 Arvin da Brgha. All Rights Reserved.
Oil on Canvas 153 x 239 Inches © 1993 Attila Richard Lukacs Provenance: Private Collection Attila Richard Lukacs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attila_Richard_Lukacs http://www.attilarichardlukacs.com/index.php http://www.dianefarrisgallery.com/artist/lukacs/love/index.html This is what genius is all about… on another note, add a bit of moss and a few Sitkas et voilà, you’ve got Stanley Park after dark. ________________________________________________________________________________ © 2013-2025 Arvin da Brgha. All […]
Oil on Canvas 51.2 x 56.2 cm © 1985 Lucian Freud. Provenance: Private Collection My favourite Lucian Freud… it is always lucidly intense to dream of this shaman! ________________________________________________________________________________ © 2013-2025 Arvin da Brgha. All Rights Reserved.
Oil on Canvas 78 x 58 Inches © 1988 Francis Bacon Provenance: Tate Britain This afternoon I spent two glorious hours at the AGO with my lovely sister, Pandora. She was in town from Ottawa on legal business; she is a federal lawyer having previously worked in the Prime Minister’s Office, followed by a decade […]
Dreams are the poetic expression of the soul. 