Need help IDing this painting - thanks!
tamar...@my-deja.com
I remembering see this painting about 20 years ago - mind you it was
probably painted long before that. I vaguely
remember it from my childhood. It was a very dark painting. The
bottom part of the painting looked like the shore of a
ancient town. The top (third) of the painting was the ocean and in the
far off distance I seem to recall a small island or
boat. However, the weird stuff on the painting was the bottom part of
it (lower two-thirds). It looked like a very trashy
town and all sorts of weird stuff was scene. I do not remember seeing
any people in the town - just weird looking
animals, garbage all over the place, the odd large coins, some
scattered fires. I distinctly remember also, handing out of
one window was - what appeared to be - someone's rear end. There may
have been a moon in the picture too. I am
trying to recall more stuff, but like I said it was 20 years ago that I
saw this (I had it in poster form).
Does this sound at all familiar to anyone - or do I sound clueless?
ANy help would be muchly apprecaited.
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William Engell
Haiti, was sent abroad to study with French painter Jean Leon Gerome. Bonet
was prolific, producing now fewer than seven thousand oils on fabric and
nine thousand mixed media on board during his mercifully brief career. The
early oils evoke Bonet's debt to failed Barbizon painter Raoul Tremaine in
his use of biologically unlikely aspens quaking beside geologically
improbable watercourses. Bonet's marginal commercial success came when he
began to vignette portraits of weeping mimes, contemporary troubadors, Louis
Napoleon and Jesus on lamp black backgrounds. Later works presage an
abstract expressionism still generations away. Bonet is said to have had an
illegitimate son, Julian Schnabel Bonet, who died in infancy, by painter
Susan Valadon. Disillusioned by his lack of success, Bonet drown himself in
the Seine.
As for the work:
"The Bonet", mixed/board, c. 1904-1905, collection of Mr and Mrs W. Chauncy
Worthington. This work, known also as "Fantomas Expectorates" and "Au
secours, au secours...", is classic late Bonet. Although unsigned, its
provenance is impeccable, despite having been found lying around on Pont
Neuf on the evening of Bonet's passing. More peccable, however is its
significance in the history of the Bonet ouevre.
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Bonet.
Georges Louis Bonet (c.1873-1911), was the youngest of twelve sisters
found on the doorstep of the St. Gerard waifs Home in Amiens. Although her
early art training was limited to macrame lessons, Bonet later travelled the
continent gathering technique where she found it, an adventure which
culminated in a brief stay in vienna on a cot in a basement room shared by
an elder cousin of Egon Schiele where they reposed in a palpably visceral
angst. There are twenty seven extant Bonet's, twelve of which are in a
private Bolivian collection maintained by a tightlipped group of elderly
Obersturmfurhers and are rarely seen. Following a path of self-abasement,
Bonet met her end by dissipation on a Christmas day in The Clinique in Lyon.
Found among her belongings was a small handwritten volume of poetry
subsequently published in Croatian under the title "Some Poems About Cats In
Purdah."
About the work:
"The Bonet", (c.1903), mixed/board, was loaned to the Tate from the
collection of Ms Penelope Burbage Greer. Originally entitled "The Thane of
Cawdor", this painting was discovered in 1913 being used as a table top in a
medical facility in Tangier. It has been authenticated as being by the hand
of Bonet by no less an authority than Roy Chapman Andrews.
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Lucretia Foss Bonet (1912-1961), born Lucas McCain Bonnet in Lebanon,
Kansas, Bonet studied painting at the Sorbonne until the advent of WWII,
during which he served in the Atlantic aboard the sub-tender USN Wampeter.
During the Battle of Jellicoe's Fjord he sustained critical injuries,
subsequently undergoing an emergency reassignment operation which had a
profound effect on his general outlook. An early advocate of Abstract
Expressionism, having been compared with Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell,
Bonet struggled with commercial obscurity until her style began to evolve
into the florid realism for which she is best know. In the late fifties,
Bonet became the darling of the New York cocktail circuit and was widely
collected.
Following her untimely death of cadmium poisoning, the "Cute Kids Series"
was bequeathed to MOMA and her paintings attained record highs at auction.
The work:
"The Bonet". (c. 1947), Mixed/composition board. Kensington Parks Museum
purchase. Previously known as "That Board in the Corner Over There", this
painting languished in an obscure corner of Bonet's New York City loft
studio where it was discovered after her death. A breakthrough work, "The
Bonet" reveals, emerging from the "dirt" of her depressed abstractions,
"Foss crimson", later to become the dominant hue of her ribbons, bows and
clown noses.
William Engell
Philippe Michel Bonet (1962-19830, was born in a little log cabin, his momma
died and his daddy got drunk. A runaway at the age of thirteen, Bonet stole
money from a school lunch program to buy a bus ticket to New York where he
lived on the streets by comporting himself poorly. A social working
discovered the young artist squatting in an abandoned tenement amidst
spontaneous installations of stolen property. Recognizing talent, the
worker arranged a showing of intallations, performances and drawings at the
alternative gallery "Mondo Willie". A limited iconography of small
appliances, media electronics and time pieces renedered his work susceptible
to misinterpretation by authorities. Alsmost overnight the young artist was
arraigned on three hundredd and eleven counts of theft, theft by taking,
larceny, assault and soliciting. On the occasion of his release on bail he
died of an injudicious dosage of heroin, a very outre' drug.
As for the work in question:
"The Bonet" (October 15, 1983), mixed on marlite. #5 in the "Hipop" series,
this painting was donated by the artist to the Rikers Island Guards
Benevolent Association and is often shown locally. Bonet's clarity of
social vision is well served by his furious mark making and his commercial
perspective on semiotics, not normally a lucrative field.
William Engell
in the Cameroon. Said to have been the illegitimate son of a Belgian
trader, little is known of Bonet's life. It has been suggested that he
lived a solitary existence, producing fine works of art and doing
subsistence farming, mostly kasava. The bulk of the pieces which are in
public institutions today were found wrapped in ungulate hides in a thatch
hut near the road from Banyo to N'ga Unde years after Bonet was struck down
by a Morris Minor while visiting a cousin in Douala. The work gained
notoriety when Pablo Picasso was quoted by the magazine "Kunst" to say,
"Bonet n'est pas facile."
"The Bonet", mixed media on board, currently in the collection of the
Knights Templar Foundation of Chicago. Bonet's fragmented ethology is
startlingly relevant to postmodern analysis of the increasingly discounted
role of the individual.
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Smythe-Pelly (1763- 1840), painted while on holiday in Sussex. In a few
short weeks Bonet carved for himself an high place in the history of British
art. He was born to the stables, but, while recovering from the injuries
sustained in a fall at the Hampshire Stakes, Bonet purchased an ill-matched
assortment of art supplies and poceeded to create monstrous abstractions on
every surface he encountered. After fully regaining his health, Bonet was
never again to as much as smudge a crumb across a coverlet. We are left,
however, with thirteen hundred serious explorations into the human psyche of
which half are visually delectable, and the remainder are shrouded in
alluring mystery. Bonet passed away in his sleep on Guy Fawkes day in 1840,
after creating a stir at his club by claiming Handel to to be "entartete."
"The Bonet" (1798), random on board, is often seen on loan from the
collection of Mister Sir Rigby Aldrich. Each Bonet can be confidently
inserted into one of three phases: Pre-treatment, The Waters, and
Post-treatment. This classic work is an ealy example of The Waters period,
evidencing a lack of intentionality we later find in the music of John Cage
in our own century. Or at least, in the last one.
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where his atelier abounds with the fruits of his newly liberated labor. Of
unkown parentage, Bonet was raised in a Minsk brothel until he scandalized
the subterranean Russian art world by painting the now infamous "Moses with
Tractor." which gained him instant acceptance into the "official" Soviet
cultural circles while yet allowing him access to the alienated
intelligensia. While he produced a modest number of sanctioned pictures in
the style of social realism, his evenings were spent furiously conquering
the lineaments of the most erotic nudes ever committed to canvas. Now that
perestroika/glasnost has let the horse fly the communal barn, Bonet is at
his best, oiling his surly marks across the face of Europe, causing scandal
amongst prudes and ardent jealousy throughout the artistic community.
"The Bonet" (1987), mixed on board, remains in the artists personal
collection. Even Bonet, who understands few things so well as concupiscence
and market forces, was astonished that anyone would want the working
surfaces of his studio bench. Since this major satori event, Bonet has
become an advocate of effete Duchampianism, when not actually producing
smut.
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SUNY Buffalo where he graduated with a degree in medical technology. During
his senior internship Bonet, having just completed a minor in art history,
came to recognize the intrinsic visual beauty of the tissue sample and the
prepared slide. Fascinated, he obtained materials and began to produce
voluptuous oils from his medical subjects. Several years after his first
gallery sales, Bonet's fascination turned to the interiors of storage and
transportation containers, which evolved into an iconography of interiors of
receptacles of every sort, from dumpsters to change purses. Eventually
thick impastos gave way to the strident drawings of acrylic on canvas that
we see in the pill bottle series. Bonet is currently at work patinating
bronze mandolin cases.
"The Bonet" (1979), mixed on board, currently among the Warhol Archive in
the basement of the Carnegie Museum, was originally entitled "Dregs of
Emulsion" until purchased by Warhol for use in his private photographs of
Joe D______ and the bear robe. Warhol insisted that the work be called
"The Bonet" to relieve him of recurrent queries.
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uncle, Charlie Parnell Bonet, after the death of his mother in an industrial
accident in a linen mill owned by a British investment group. The elder
Bonet emigrated to the United States and settled in Chicago where young
Seamus flourished both as an artist and as a member of the Green Brigade, a
paramilitary organization which helped supply weapons and explosives to the
IRA. Bonet's early work consisted of idealized watercolor landscapes but
soon he was producing the work for which he is now regarded, a graphical
response to the creatively dormant Fluxus movement. He spoke of his style
as "Irish contemporary," pointing out that it seemed to him "saturated with
the bloody totality of Irish history, wherein the sophisticates savage the
naive in perpetuation of barmy philosophy." In the late Seventies Bonet
dropped out of sight altogether and is believed to have been killed in Derry
during the recent colliers strike.
"The Bonet, (1973), mixed/lipids/corrugated, touring Europe in a van with
The Chieftains, on loan from the Fraternal Order of Police of Chicago, was
known to hve been the last work the artist produced prior to his
disappearance. It is also the only work on public exhibition, thus its
popular title, superceding "Mickey After the Fall," by which Bonet himself
had known the painting.
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and Jack Kerouac at the short-lived Le Chat Noir in North Beach, while
playing alto saxophone in a house band lead by Shelley Manne. Bonet went
east with Cassidy, for a short period living in a cold water walkup he
shared with friends of Bill Burroughs, and began producing paintings
"reflecting the institutionalized venality of America and the ultimate
disintegration of matter." In 1959 Bonet moved back to the west coast where
he "divested [himself] of the creative accretions of New York bohemianism"
at Synanon. He continues to paint in the style of abstract impressionism
out of his converted farmhouse, Klamanth Studios, near Keno, Oregon.
"The Bonet" (1981), mixed on shard of cabinet, hangs in the bathroom on the
second floor of City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco. A typical
mid-career Bonet, this board is the last in the "taped series" which
immediately preceded "The Big Scratch No. 1" the painting which caused such
a stir at Christies where it set a record for a work by a living Oregonian:
$3.5 million, exluding the 10% sellers fee.
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find the painting. I am not at all certain, but this would be one avenue to
explore. You don't say where you saw it. Maybe it was a reproduction.
William Engell
February--he looked fit, by the way-- he mentioned that painting. I failed
to connect the two. Is it age? Do I need more Ginko Biloba? Now that the
junta has be defanged, perhaps the Argentinian art world will finally
acknowledge the truth.
Bill
Marilyn Welch wrote in message <39DF4F70...@victoria.tc.ca>...
>You are wrong Bill, it was Borge who painted it. Because he was blind he
himself
>did not know what the final painting looked like so it was passed from hand
to
>hand in
>Argentina. Almost everyone who owned it pretended that they had painted it,
and
>all of them ended up in jail. This furthered the mystery of the ownership.
The
>Argentine government was concerned about the fact that in the painting
although
>the town had no one in it, there was someone mooning in a window.
>They believed this was making fun of the dictator.
>
>Marilyn
tamar...@my-deja.com
you have provided me. I appreciate your help.
T
In article <stt6pje...@corp.supernews.com>,
tamar...@my-deja.com
Do you have a first name for Borge - I'd like to check out his paintings
to see if I can find the one I tried to describe.
Thanks.
In article <39DF4F70...@victoria.tc.ca>,
tamar...@my-deja.com
Though...I am now still no further in my quest!
In article <Pine.GSO.3.95.iB1.0.1001011164958.14312C-100000@vtn1>,
Marilyn Welch <wq...@victoria.tc.ca> wrote:
> Jorg=E9=E9e (/accent on the e) Luis Borge (/ accent of the e)
>
> Also look up the word "satire." That is, unless you are=20
> having me on, one never really knows, does one.
>
> Marilyn
>
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 tamar...@my-deja.com wrote:
>
> > Marilyn,
> >=20
> > Do you have a first name for Borge - I'd like to check out his
paintings
> > to see if I can find the one I tried to describe.
> >=20
> > Thanks.
> >=20
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