this morning i selected 6 paintings from my 2014 series of vermeer & fayum inspired gaze series of paintings. they will be included in the cmc aspen exhibition. it should be pretty clear to you that the two on the upper right are inspired by 1st c. fayum portraits, whereas the rest were inspired by 17th c. vermeer portraits, such as the one below; vermeer’s most famous portrait which hangs in the mauritshuis, the the hague.
VERMEER: girl with a pearl earing, 1665
2 studies of 1st c. fayum portraits i made in the british museum in 1972. the museum director allowed me to sit in front of these two paintings with my oil paints while i made the studies.
