
Leo Webster
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Provenance
Anon. sale, Bonhams, London, 22 March 2000, lot 74.
A label bearing Blanco's studio stamp on the reverse of the painting includes comments from the artist about this work:
'Painted in the year 1962, this sketch in oil colors is of my best male model in Bali: namely I Kebbak (my Balinese wife's father). His intense expression required something delicate which I think I accomplished by painting a little gold earing called in Balinese: "Bungkung Kuping". Men in the real-Bali-of-old wore such little earings. I hope that it will find harmony in the home of Commander John Patrick David & his wife in its hand carved frame whose incised designs were taken from Temple decorations in Bali.'
The painting is still housed in the same frame referenced in this text.