This is one painting from my early days. Until recently, I had no image of it, but just recently someone contacted my agent in Vienna asking for an estimate of its value. Fortunately a good photo was sent, which I was able to straighten and crop.
Most paintings from that time in the seventies and eighties were not photographed, I had no record of them.
A interesting story about the artworld in those days: in 1976 I entered this painting into an exhibition at the Edmonton Art Gallery (Alberta, Canada). The scope was a survey of new works in the province, called "What's New". Mine was one of very few paintings submitted; at that time, conceptual art was all the rage. When I delivered the painting to the gallery, the curator asked me, amazed: "What? You still paint?"
I am glad that some of these old works show up from time to time, because other than a few professionally photographed pieces (8x10 inch photos, which I scanned), most of my work was not recorded.
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