Oil on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.
Signed on the front.
Enjoying the sun, rinsing after a swim at the beach.
The figure in the foreground is a copy of Eadweard Muybridg, ‘Two males walking’ from his famous work: Animal Locomotion: an Electro-photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements.[
In 1870, Eadweard Muybribdge conducted the world’s first time sequence photography of humans and animals in locomotion.
The figure in the background is a 1946 photo of William Christian Miller, a model in New York.
This painting also has vibes of a scene from a David Francis novel, ‘Wedding Bush Road’, (2016), where the narrator reminisces on a dysfunctional childhood on a large property on the Mornington Peninsula.