Donald Roller Wilson (b. 1938). Jack's Bar Mitzvah Was a Total Disaster!, 2020. Oil on canvas. 5-3/8 x 5-3/8 inches (13....

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Donald Roller Wilson (b. 1938)
Jack's Bar Mitzvah Was a Total Disaster!, 2020
Oil on canvas
5-3/8 x 5-3/8 inches (13.7 x 13.7 cm) (tondo)
Signed and dated center left: Roller 20

PROVENANCE:
The artist;
Private collection, Arkansas.

NOTE:
The full title of the work reads as follows:

JACK HAD COME TO KNOW AND ANTICIPATE THE REPETITIVENESS OF THE OCCASION - IT WOULD LIKELY BECOME AN ADDITIONAL IMPLOSION OF HIS ENDLESS AND ON-GOING BAR MITZVAH EFFORT - IT HAD BECOME AN INEVITABLE RITE - A BLUEPRINT - A KARMIC DILEMMA...

POOR BOY...SEEN HERE JUST PRIOR TO THE BEGINNING OF WHAT CERTAINLY WOULD BECOME ONE OF SO MANY FAILED ATTEMPTS AT BECOMING CORROBORATED AS A SANCTIONED PROTOTYPE OF THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL...EACH FAILURE HAVING UNFORTUNATELY COINCIDED WITH AN INSCRUTABLE, SUDDEN WIND...BLASTING OUT FROM UNEXPLORED VENUES, AND ACTIVATING A PROPELLER ATOP HIS YARMULKE - PROPELLING HIM WELL UP PAST THE TOPS OF THE PECAN TREES OF BRENDA'S NUT FARM...


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