'Mr R. Lenkiewicz' 1973 ~ Project 1: Vagrancy

'Mr R. Lenkiewicz' 1972 ~ Project 1: Vagrancy oil on stretched canvas 800 x 600mm by Robert Oscar Lenkiewicz (1941-2002), signed to lower right. Roberts’s first self-portrait within a Project, exhibited in 1973, exhibit number 74, with a price tag of £65.00. The title derives from the fact that he became part of the vagrant community and was named and know by the other vagrants as Mr R Lenkiewicz. The exhibition Project 1: Vagrancy was displayed in a large derelict building on the Barbican known as ‘Jacob’s Ladder’. In 2008 it was exhibited in Robert’s one man show ‘Robert Lenkiewicz Self-portraits’ at the Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art. A full page illustration of it was published on page 31 in the hard-backed book that accompanied the exhibition. With a closed corner gold metal-leafed slip over red bole rubbed through on edges within a closed-corner ‘ROL’ black hand-painted frame overall size: 1075 x 870mm glazed with UltraVue-UV92 2mm glass: water white for maximum clarity and minimum reflection together with maximum UV protection.