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INATRA, Frank
ORIGINAL SINATRA SAD CLOWN PORTRAIT
Acrylic on canvass-board, signed ("F. SINATRA"), lightly at lower right. Penned on the verso: "A Jolly Christmas". Sinatra painted this sad clown for a friend in around 1958. Behind the series of sad clown portraits he painted for a short time in the late 1950s, is a story. Ava Gardner, to whom he was married from 1951 to 1957 was, outside of his music, the great love of his life. Their affair ended badly with Mr. Sinatra certain of her infidelities. That's when the clowns made their first appearance. Yet the arts well provide. It is suggested by some who might know that it was Ava who made Frank Sinatra a Torch singer. That seems the way of the world that great emotional pain can make a thing great (if it doesn't kill it in the bargain). As such this is an important piece -- a self-portrait of the emotional state of one of the great American artists of the 20th century. Sinatra, Frank
ORIGINAL SINATRA SAD CLOWN PORTRAIT
Acrylic on canvass-board, signed ("F. SINATRA"), lightly at lower right. Penned on the verso: "A Jolly Christmas". Sinatra painted this sad clown for a friend in around 1958. Behind the series of sad clown portraits he painted for a short time in the late 1950s, is a story. Ava Gardner, to whom he was married from 1951 to 1957 was, outside of his music, the great love of his life. Their affair ended badly with Mr. Sinatra certain of her infidelities. That's when the clowns made their first appearance. Yet the arts well provide. It is suggested by some who might know that it was Ava who made Frank Sinatra a Torch singer. That seems the way of the world that great emotional pain can make a thing great (if it doesn't kill it in the bargain). As such this is an important piece -- a self-portrait of the emotional state of one of the great American artists of the 20th century. Sinatra, Frank