Lenkiewicz: The Legacy – Works from The Lenkiewicz Foundation Collection

List of works

Lenkiewicz: The Legacy – Works from The Lenkiewicz Foundation Collection
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
8 April – 11 July 2009

EASEL PAINTINGS

The Father Eats His Son. 1982
Oil on paper. 25 x 23 ins.
Project – Death

Diogenes and Belle at Prayer with Chairs. 1974
Oil on canvas. 77 x 84 ins.
Project – Death & The Maiden

The Painter with Mary in Newspaper Magi-Fools Hats. 1981
Oil on canvas.  19 x 27 ins.
Project – The Painter With Mary

‘Mouse’ with Wool – Interior. 1965
Oil on canvas. 74 x 80 ins.
Project – Non-Project

Study of the Painter’s Dead Mother. 1977
Oil on panel. 10 x 11.5 ins.
Project – Non-Project

Man Watching Woman Walk Away. 1977
Cryla on board. 23 x 48 ins.
Project – Jealousy

PROJECT NOTEBOOKS

Notes: Self Portrait/Death Bed. 1977
Studies and notes relating to the painting Self Portrait: Death Bed.

Death and the Maiden: Paintings by R. O Lenkiewicz, including ‘Notes on Death & The Maiden’. 1974
Project 2: Death & the Maiden included many works on paper in addition to easel paintings. The works on paper are collected in this notebook. Lenkiewicz’s Preface state’s that the notebook contains “Studies, observations and connectors between that which is called ‘love’ and that which is called ‘death’.”

Aesthetic Notes: Relationship Theme. ‘Mary: Aesthetic Notes’ 1978-1981
A journal entirely in the artist’s hand recording his relationship with his third wife, Mary, from their first meetings in 1978 to their honeymoon in Rome in 1981. The notebook was the centrepiece of Project 14 The Painter With Mary: A study in Obsessional Behaviour. The large folio was published in facsimile in 1998 as ‘The Mary Notebook’.

OTHER

Diary Notes 1981
One of the painter’s private diaries which span the years 1975-2002 recording appointments, meetings, sittings, and including photographs, press cuttings, occasional watercolours and sketches.

PUBLICATIONS

R.O. Lenkiewicz, Observations on Local Vagrancy. 1973
Originally published as a booklet to accompany the Vagrancy Exhibition in 1973, this volume contains a facsimile bound in a leather folio.

WORKS ON PAPER

Death of Mrs Plotnik at Hotel Shem Tov. c.1955
Drawing. Rose thorn, ink and pencil. 13 x 10 ins.

Sketches for the painting ‘Mouse with wool – interior’. c.1964
Pen, ink and watercolour. 15 x 13 ins.
[Together with a small group of associated drawings]

Death as the Lover Presents His Entrails. 1974
Charcoal, pencil and black ink. 16 x 8 ins.
Death & the Maiden Project

‘Maid & Wolf’ and ‘Maid with Snake & Wolf (Little Red Riding Hood)’. 1974
Aesthetic Note. Cryla on paper. 3.5  x 6 ins/3.5  x 6 ins.
Death & The Maiden Project

Charles Thomas McNaughton. Known as ‘Chic the Bam’. 1976
Drawing of a vagrant with associated notes. Pen and ink. 14 x 11 ins.

12 Jan '77: Visited by 'Brother Blair'. 1977
Drawing of a vagrant with associated notes. Pencil and ink. 16 x 12 ins.

‘My right arm… you were like my right arm’. 1977
Aesthetic Note. Watercolour, pen ink and bodycolour.
11 x 8 ins.Jealousy Project

Lover with four memories suffering from mild withdrawal symptoms. 1977
Aesthetic Notes. Mixed media. 11 x 8/11 x 8 ins.
Jealousy Project

March 1977: ‘I am ill now: but a mere cold…’ 1977
Aesthetic Note. Pen, ink and watercolour. 16 x 11 ins.

7 March '78 (late) ‘Watched a young couple engrossed in each other over wine...' 1978
Aesthetic Note. Watercolour, pen and ink, heightened with white. 10 x 8 ins.

‘Go Away-Nearer!' 1978
Aesthetic Note. Mixed media. 11 x 9 ins.
Orgasm Project

‘Go Away – Nearer!' 1978
Aesthetic Notes. Pen, ink and watercolour. 9.5 x 6.5/9.5 x 6.5 ins.
Orgasm Project

‘I love you, please let me prove it...' 1978
Aesthetic Note. Watercolour, pen, ink and bodycolour. 11 x 8 ins.
Orgasm Project

‘Uniquely rich sexual event with Lizbeth...' 1978
Aesthetic Note. Watercolour, Pen and ink. 8  x 11.5  ins.
Orgasm Project

4.30am May 8th 1978: ‘Awoke Suddenly…’ 1978
Aesthetic Note. Pen, ink and watercolour. 11.5  x 15 ins.
Orgasm Project

31 March 1978: 'The body is vulnerable...' 1978
Aesthetic Note. Pen and ink. 11 x 8 ins.
Orgasm Project

31 March 78: 'Exquisite sense of her melting at the point of climax'. 1978
Aesthetic Note. Pen, ink and watercolour. 11 x 8 ins.
Orgasm Project

8 February 1978: 'Obsession. Monica seated in the studio...' 1978
Aesthetic Note. Pen, ink and watercolour heightened with white. 10.5 x 9.5 ins.
Orgasm Project

Orgasm/Study. 1978
Aesthetic Note. Cryla on paper. 13 x 7 ins.
Orgasm Project

‘Maid & Wolf’ and ‘Maid with Snake & Wolf (Little Red Riding Hood)’. 1978
Aesthetic Note. Cryla on paper. 3.5  x 6 ins/3.5  x 6 ins.
Orgasm Project

‘Man dying – the decay and the spirit rush out to the void.’
Aesthetic Note. Watercolour heightened with white, pen and ink. 8  x 11.5 ins.

Man watching his empty hand. 1979
Aesthetic Note. Watercolour and bodycolour. 16 x 11 ins..
Suicide Project

Man in a knot by the straight back of a woman. 1979
Aesthetic Note. Watercolour and bodycolour on paper. 16 x 20 ins.
Suicide Project

Tuesday 12 December 1978. ‘First Contact.’ 1978
Aesthetic Note. Mixed media. 15 x 21 ins.
The Painter with Mary Project

The Painter with Mary holding tightly as they make love to their own selves. 1981
Aesthetic Note. Mixed media. 13 x 23 ins.
The Painter with Mary Project

The Resurrection of Mary. ‘She kisses herself farewell – I leave with the corpse.’ 1981
Aesthetic Note. Mixed media. 16 x 16 ins.
The Painter With Mary Project

22-23 Oct 79. ‘Mary has not come to see me’. 1979
Aesthetic Note. Mixed media. 11.5 x 8 ins.
The Painter With Mary Project

The Painter with Mary, Design for Tomb Monument. 1981
Aesthetic Note. Watercolour, pen and ink, heightened with white. 16 x 12 ins.
The Painter With Mary Project

Mary Flayed. Marsyas. 1981
Watercolour heightened with white. 13 x 12 ins.
The Painter With Mary Project

‘Man caressing his fear’ & ‘Man watching his empty hand during the caress.’ 1981
Aesthetic Notes. Mixed media. 13 x 6.5 ins/14 x 14 ins.
The Painter With Mary Project

‘How heavy is a childhood load?'
Aesthetic Note. Pen, ink and watercolour. 20 x 16.5 ins.

April 12th – Friday 1985 – 10pm 'Nothing more invisible the morning after than the passion of the night before'. The Painter with ‘Ingres’. 1985
Aesthetic Note. Watercolour, pen, ink and bodycolour.  18 x 17.5 ins.