Robert Oscar Lenkiewicz, (1941-2002),Bust portrait of a gentleman, depicted facing frontally...

Robert Oscar Lenkiewicz, (1941-2002),

Bust portrait of a gentleman,
depicted facing frontally wearing American eagle emblem,
Elvis Presley badges and Remembrance Day poppy,
watercolour and gouache,
extensively inscribed in ink in the artist's hand to the backing board,

"Watercolour & Gouache:
Study of 'Elvis Presley', Plymouth
who changed his name in homage etc.
Suicide Project, Section 12
RELATIONSHIPS THEME,

R. Lenkiewicz,
Sold to Mr. Wright £150
To be collected
£50 paid. £100 now owed (crossed out)
All paid Lenkiewicz"
14.5" x 10", (37cm x 25.5cm),
in card mount and gilt frame under glass.

Provenance: acquired by Les Wright
(the sitter of lot 697) directly from the artist as annotated,
and then by the current owner,
who knew both Les Wright and the artist
and attended the 1994 NEC Birmingham exhibition of Lenkiewicz's work.