He’s Back!
He’s back! Four years and one lawsuit later, the angel has descended again. This portrait is, I’m convinced, the best Blue Period painting not yet in a museum, and one of the best of all. If I had a cool hundred mil to blow, I would have held my fire when the Marie-Therese was up last month and would have set my sights on him. She’s not the best Marie-Therese by a long shot, but she was available, and I suppose you gotta love the one you’re with. Or not. The Portrait de Angel Fernandez de Soto is such a powerful work. I stood transfixed before it for quite a while four years ago and regret that I won’t be […]