Oil on Canvas
200.5 x 243.0 cm
©1990-1991 Peter Doig
Gosh but I love this artist’s works.
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Category: Painters
The Holy Grail – A Portrait of Jakob.
Oil on Canvas
45 x 40 cm
© 2015 Wim Heldens.
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A true masterpiece. Wim manages to validate his oldster Michael Overleaves with each sublime canvas. Love it. Love him more!
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Sick Room.
Oil on Canvas
38.1 x 40.0 Inches
© 1990, Hugh Steers
Provenance: Estate of Hugh Steers.
One of the most poignant AIDS-related paintings of the last century. Truly moving.
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I Remember.
Michael Jackson by Andy Warhol. On this the anniversary of Michael Jackson’s birth, I thought to pay tribute to one of the most inspiring creative geniuses to have ever graced this world. This is a work by Andy Warhol which is part of the Revolver Gallery’s Andy Warhol: Revisited – A Pop Art Exhibition in Yorkville at 77 Bloor Street West, Toronto. One of the truly fantastic shows to have graced Toronto in long ages.
I finally got to attend a couple of weeks ago with my brother and my only nephew – in town for the summer from the Bahamas. We had a good visit and the show was the most spectacular show I have seen in long ages. Beautifully curated and just intimate enough that it doesn’t end up being overwhelming or, more importantly, underwhelming.
Michael Jackson: August 29, 1958 [-O-] June 25, 2009.
Here’s a dream, previously shared in this unique and utterly unrivalled blog of mine, of Michael Jackson being his marvellously shamanic wonderful self. I love you more, Michael – sweet and blissful dreams.
https://dreampoetica.com/2014/09/17/oh-what-joy/
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Remember The Time, Michael Jackson, © 1992 MJJ Productions Inc.
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The Muse.
Oil on Canvas
66 x 71 cm
© 2015 Wim Heldens
Exquisite. I would not be surprised if these two aren’t task companions.
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The Architects Home In The Ravine
Oil on Canvas
200 x 275 cm
1991, Peter Doig
Provenance: Private Collection; sold at auction in London, England, 2013 12$m.
http://peterdoig.mbam.qc.ca/en/
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How did I not know of this creative genius before? Well, apart from not being awash in multiple millions… I have watched this painting for the past several weeks truly enraptured. Of course, thanks to the schadenfreude that was Evan Solomon’s demise – goodness, if you sneezed, it’s very likely that you would have missed it – I have finally found Peter Doig.
Of course, I don’t look at TV so his departure from CBC would have been more readily noticed. Moral of the story: do not ever try extorting money from the rich… and a lawyer to boot – Bruce Bailey. Goodness, what could he possibly have been thinking? The greedy twat… adieu! Goodness, I have not laughed so hard in long ages.
As Sunday is my birthday, I am going to be shaking tail feathers – it’s also Caribana or whatever it is now called – and being feted over the next couple of nights. Happy summer, sweet dreams and my but I love this Peter Doig painting.
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Happy Canada Day!
New Flag
Oil on Canvas
Charles Pachter
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Wheatland – Canadiana Suite – Oscar Peterson Trio 1964.
Piano: Oscar Peterson
Bass: Ray Brown
Drums: Ed Thigpen
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Oyster Catcher
Serigraph
24 x 30 inches
Edition: 91
© 2009 Robert Davidson
Provenance: 5/91 Art Collection Arvin da Braga.
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Happy 148th Canada – for more than half my life, I have had some truly remarkable, uplifting experiences whilst living here. Too, I shared a great love with my Canadian-born task companion, Merlin.
Regrettably, I could neither find the dimensions nor year of creation for the masterful Charles Pachter flag which I would presume is an Oil on Canvas.
Happy Canada Day – my life experience has been immensely enriched for having remained focussed here in this great land.
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Les Femmes d’Alger (Version “O”).
Oil on Canvas
114 x 146.4 cm
© February 14, 1955
Pablo Picasso
Speculative Provenance: Likely the Al-Thani family. I would like to think that Sheikha Al Mayassa Al-Thani has acquired this masterpiece for her family’s burgeoning collection. Possibly the most powerful woman in art today; she also happens to be the daughter of the most stylish woman on the planet at present, Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al-Missned!
Sold today, May 11, 2015, which would have been my mother, Harella da Braga’s 95th birthday – she is now reincarnated. Harella died in August 1980 in Toronto. Reborn male in London, England; he is male biracial (Caucasian/East Indian) and upper middle class. The winning bid in New York City was 179$m!
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Big Yellow Taxi.
© 1974 Live TV performance
© 1970 Music and Lyrics Joni Mitchell
Guitar & Voice: Joni Mitchell
Album: Ladies of the Canyon
Reprise Records
If you must, before you go, let me just say thank you… for your beauty of spirit and unsurpassed creative genius. I love you, Joni. Love. Light…
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Oreo.
Acrylic on Canvas
126 x 100.5 cm
© 1988 Jean-Michel Basquiat
Provenance: Private Collection as of 2005.
One of my favourite pieces in the current Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition at the AGO. The reviewers in both the Globe and Mail and NOW magazine haven’t a fucking clue what they are talking about; certainly, in the case of the latter it is the sort of sly invidiousness that one can ever expect of Canadians in their cool animus towards Blacks and the Black artistic aesthetic. Later for the likes of sphinctered, snow-driven dreck comme lui…
Of course, all that glorious fecund green serves as a good enough reason to say, Happy St. Patrick’s Day. As James Joyce so deftly illustrated, we are all Irish for being possessed of imagination… we are all dreamers – I certainly am. I love you more!
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Dreams are the poetic expression of the soul. 