‘You Offer Me a Dead Rose, May I Give You a Dead Rat?’

‘You Offer Me a Dead Rose, May I Give You a Dead Rat?’
Media: 
Oil on board
Size: 
41 x 56cm
Date: 
1976 based on Project and style
Signed: 
Yes
Inscription: 
Signed lower right, and thrice on reverse. Label on reverse: 'Self-Portrait with dead rat. Oil on board. Project 8 [sic] - LOVE AND MEDIOCRITY'.
Exhibited: 
1997 R. O. Lenkiewicz Retrospective, City of Plymouth Museums and Art Gallery.
Sitter(s): 
Robert O. Lenkiewicz
Additional Information: 

The label appears to be in Robert's handwriting. This painting has recently been published as Project 4, which needs confirmation. Further, it is seen among the self portraits in a 1978 photograph of Robert painting for Project 10 (Self Portrait), and may well have been exhibited for that Project.

Re: ‘You Offer Me a Dead Rose, May I Give You a Dead Rat?’

Submitted by Jeny Bremer on 22 June 2008 - 7:54pm.

I have made the photographe.
But, I am not sure which year it was.
I think, it was around 1975.
It was used for the project:Love and mediocrity.