Mme de Saint-Eueverte's Soirée

Acrylic on panel, unframed 9x12 inches, (22.9x30.5 cm), 2012

 

Framed, 17.5x14.5 inches, (36.8x44.5 cm)

 

Charles Swann is on the left, Mmes de Cambremer, de Francquetot and de Gallardon are at center. Oriane de Guermantes in her Princesse des Laumes incarnation is at the right.

The painting will be exhibited in a show curated by Sarah Archer at Viktor Wynd Fine Arts in London. It opens October 12 at a celebration of Suzette Field's "A Curious Invitation - The 40 Greatest Parties in Literature", published by Picador.

 

 



Three paintings of R A Notto photographs

Church

Tower

Chateau

Irving, Lorca and Salam

Washington Irving holding "Tales of the Alhambra"

Federico Garcia Lorca holding a page of "Romancero Gitano"

Salam and his cat Mimi from 100 Camels in the Courtyard by Paul Bowles



The Discovery of Writing

Richard Brautigan at Literary Kicks

Richard Brautigan

The Dead Anarchist

The Last Tiger

http://www.litkicks.com/VisionsOfBrautigan



François Villon at LiteraryKicks

http://www.litkicks.com/FrancoisVillon



J.D.Salinger at Literary Kicks

Portraits of J.D.Salinger characters published with articles by Michael Norris at Literary Kicks in the fall of 2011 and winter of 2012.

~The Catcher in the Rye~

Holden Caulfield

Robert Ackley

Ward Stradlater

Mr. Spencer

Sunny

Phoebe

Jane Gallagher

Sally Hayes

Mr. Antolini

~The Glass Family~

Bessie

Seymour

Muriel

Buddy

Booboo

The Twins

Zooey

Frannie

Les

13 more characters from The Search

Mme de Cambremer after a strenuous session of music,

her diamond earrings fallen, her headpiece of black grapes come undone.

Mlle Vinteuil recalling a spell of very hot weather at Montjouvain.

Saniette waiting for thunder that never comes.


The affable Babal Bréauté.

Mme de Marsantes

Gísèle sur la plage à Balbec.

Rosamonde

Octave, listening to La Voix Humaine.

Léa

Tomato Twin no.1

M. Nissim Bernard, understanding how resemblance is often only external.

Tomato Twin no. 2

Marie-Antoinette, Jupien's niece, at her

first soirée as Charlus' inheritor, Mlle. d'Oloron.

An Unobstructed View

Familiar Eyes

~Correspondances~

La Nature est un temple où de vivants piliers

Laissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles;

L'homme y passe à travers des forêts de symboles

Qui l'observent avec des regards familiers.

Comme de longs échos qui de loin se confondent

Dans une ténébreuse et profonde unité,

Vaste comme la nuit et comme la clarté,

Les parfums, les couleurs et les sons se répondent.

II est des parfums frais comme des chairs d'enfants,

Doux comme les hautbois, verts comme les prairies,

— Et d'autres, corrompus, riches et triomphants,

Ayant l'expansion des choses infinies,

Comme l'ambre, le music, le benjoin et l'encens,

Qui chantent les transports de l'esprit et des sens.

~ Charles Baudelaire

San Soliterio

Buen Paso

Outside Salinas