In 2004 I created an exhibit collection for a show in Montreal based on a famous photo of Marilyn Monroe. It really came about as the curator wanted me to exhibit works in this style based on one painting I created in 2000. So I went about and created various variations of the same image. The show was titled 'Variations on a Theme, Opus 1'. The works were all large and there were 21 in total. They all sold with the exception of one. While this is considered a beatiful picture of the Icon, it was, in fact taken as she was leaving the hospital after a mis-carriage. She tried to cover up her face from the sea of photographers. Yet in it all, she remained hauntingly beautiful, vulnerable and forever unique. Here is a fraction of the show, in addition to the single piece that did not sell, which hung in a window at the AWest Gallery in Hudson. The photo was taken by Scott Baldinger as a window vignette. It sold a few days later.
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