Photo - by Robert Pride

Detail - Photo was taken before completion of Painting
Oil on Canvas Board approximately 21X32
Stylized after Early Dutch Master Albrecht Durer's Self Portrait.
The areas in black were colored in with India Ink at the time of the photo for presentation purposes.
The stylized self portrait is based on a self portrait by Albrecht Durer, note the elongated face.
The finished painting has the artist posed, wearing his trade mark top hat sitting in front of an abstract window.
The walls and curtains are abstract impressions of walls and drapes.
The scene outside the window depicts a the same landscape viewed in Durer's self portrait.
Private Collection - somewhere in Georgia.
The artist was known to have long hair and a short beard...
He often wore a top hat, tuxedo shirt, and tattered jeans since age 12 till 22.

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