Hi John,
 You say to get an understanding of the inflation of lenkiewicz prices between then and now.(Bearne's sale  12/04/08 Lot 377 Man presenting his Entrails. Guild price £8000 - £12000. sale result  £65000.00.

Hi Jojo,
Just to let you know that Amazon have sent me my copy of the book which I received on Thusday 11 November Signed Jojo 376/1000.

 The photographs and lay out are of very good quality, This is an enjoyable and fascinating read. Many thanks for your hard work and time in putting this together.
 
ps Please let me know if this is put into hardback.

Dave E.

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When the plate spinner died all the plates came tumbling down.

How very true but whilst alive what a performer

This is a sad time for all of us, who have enjoy this site for many years and  have gained a much better understanding for Robert Lenkiewicz and his work.
 
I would like to take this opportunity to say "thank you Dave" for all your hard work, time and effort in maintaining this site for all of those with an intrest in all things Robert Lenkiewicz.

Also a big thank you to Most for the Members who have made this site a enjoyable experience.

         


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Robert Lenkiewicz: Late Works
17 May - 20 August 2008

Robert Lenkiewicz was one of the most gifted and controversial artists of the 20th Century.

Throughout his career he was the subject of much speculation and controversy, which was focused as much on his personal life as on his work. He reacted against the styles and conventions of his time and, at a point when figurative painting was deeply unfashionable, he undertook a lifelong commitment to produce over 20 large scale projects examining fundamentally human issues.

Robert Lenkiewicz: Late Works – Observations on the Theme of the Double focuses on the artist’s Painter with Women series. Begun in the late 1980s and completed in 1994, this series examines the artist’s own personal relationships and puts forward the idea that love is a form of self obsession:

           ‘The painter looks into the mirror to paint himself; the lover looks into his lover to love himself’.

Two key ideas persist throughout Lenkiewicz’s work. The first is the isolation of the individual and our inability to know the minds or feelings of anyone else. The second is the sense of anxiety we experience in the face of inevitable death. He believed these factors drove people into various forms of obsessive behaviour including love, suicide, drug and alcohol addition.

Lenkiewicz himself displayed compulsive behaviour, amassing a library of over 25,000 books on topics such as psychology, metaphysics, the occult and sexual behaviour.  He was an equally obsessive painter, completing 21 large-scale projects over the course of his career.

Image: The Painter With Anna: Rear View, St Anthony Theme, by Robert Lenkiewicz, 1993.

Exhibition Launch: Saturday 17 May from 1pm. Nahem Shoa, a former pupil of Robert Lenkiewicz, will talk about Lenkiewicz's work at 1pm.

Lunchtime talk: Wednesday 11 June, 1pm, free.

Try lot 114

Study of Ione in Red.

Roxana Halls

Hi,
To be able to give an answer to both your enquiries you will need to post a image here, together
With a image of the signature.

Hi,
Great set of paintings I wonder could you drop me a line to my email address dave.comfleet@ntlworld.com as i would like to talk to you abount these paintings as a private collector.
Many thanks
Dave E. 

AS for a title for this book I suggest --
"ROBERT LENKIEWICZ   Are we all sitting comfortably".
This refers not only to sitting for a portrait but also how we are all sitting in a world with different views.