Hoboken Nights

Tony and I held for several years something known as 'Hoboken Nights'. Josée in the post before refers to them. Tony didn't belong to the establishment, although he had usually one or two avid collectors. he liked to share his work and craved recognition. At the Hoboken Nights everybody who was active in the arts was welcome. The idea was not to have an audience but to be under colleagues and to discuss paint and turpentine and colons and metaphors. Art critics were not welcome I guess. They tended to write more about the man and his fascinating lfe than about his work and Tony did not like that. The Painting above is called Zwarte Panter, the name of a well liked modern gallery. Well liked by the elite that is. So this mixed media drawing of oil and pastel on paper is part of Tony's critique of the art world. Note the double portrait in the right hand corner. Painted in Antwero, in the Kloosterstraat.