Dear Friends,
My book is about ten years of
Artist Maggie Gray’s life.
It begins in NYC in 2000 and will
end in 2010. I do not want to give away
too much information so I am taking
my excerpts out of context….mixing things
up so to speak.
NEW YORK CITY, 2000
Artist, Maggie Gray...I feel my weakest in the early
morning. My ability to cope with the details of life have
dissolved into the muted muddy tones of a very bad watercolor. Once I enter my studio with
hot-coffee in hand I am armed to meet the challenges of the moment, but not necessarily
of life.
LONDON, 2003
French Collector, Jean Yves
Canas, a wealthy and important industrialist living in homes and apartments all over the world
decided to put a large amount of his world-class art up for auction at Sotheby’s
in London. The Canas collection included
well known Masters of contemporary and impressionist
art both living and dead. Mostly dead. Several years earlier, however, Jean Yves
purchased the entire art collection of an American well known in Hollywood for
producing high-priced blockbuster films. Seems the hot-shot infamous filmmaker found himself
under water financially, the consequence of using brute force when romancing the current
“it” girl, breaking her nose in several places.
He paid to have it fixed, of course, and didn’t even mind
the additional few hundred thousand dollars she required to have several other
parts tucked and nipped as well.
Unfortunately, she forgot that the whole fiasco was their
little secret and somehow it was leaked to the press in a very off handed-comment Miss IT made to the wife of an
inveterate Hollywood mogul. “She said
quietly when lunching on the patio at
Chateau Marmount, ‘ it cost that prick a bundle to beat the shit out of me….I promise you
I will not take another blow for less than five million". The press was having a field day! And, Mr. “deep-pockets” was up that
special creek without a paddle.
Jean Yves Canas did not want to loan the- filmmaker- to- the stars any money so he had the creep undervalue his much publicized multi-million dollar collection of contemporary art and sell it to him for pennies on the dollar. Three of my paintings went to auction.
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