Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles Private Collection, Los Angeles Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
Los Angeles, Patrick Painter Inc., Rinus Van de Velde, September 22–October 27, 2012 Los Angeles, Patrick Painter Inc., John Newsom, Rinus Van de Velde, July 2–August 15, 2016
Rinus van de Velde, Antwerp, November 2012: Why Conrad is my best friend? Because he's everything I am not. And since I'm so boring and normal, he's a thousand things. I negotiate my whole identity with his. You could say that, through him, I become the sculptor of my artistic self. Even now that he's gone, I can feel him standing somewhere behind me.
signed and dated "Rinus Van de Velde 2012" on the reverse charcoal on canvas, in artist's frame canvas 78 5/8 x 53 1/8 in. (199.7 x 134.9 cm) artist's frame 80 x 54 1/2 in. (203.2 x 138.4 cm) Executed in 2012.