The Entertainers

Inspired by “The Birthday Of The Infanta” from “The Fairy Stories Of Oscar Wilde”

Acrylic and water soluble pastel on deep canvas with painted sides

Painting size: 60 x 100 x 4cm / 23.6 x 39.3 x 1.5″

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Suddenly, with a cry so shrill that all the children were startled and Don Pedro’s hand clutched at the agate pommel of his dagger, they leapt to their feet and whirled madly round the enclosure beating their tambourines, and chanting some wild love-song in their strange guttural language. Then at another signal they all flung themselves again to the ground and lay there quite still, the dull strumming of the zithers being the only sound that broke the silence. After that they had done this several times, they disappeared for a moment and came back leading a brown shaggy bear by a chain, and carrying on their shoulders some little Barbary apes. The bear stood upon his head with the utmost gravity, and the wizened apes played all kinds of amusing tricks with two gypsy boys who seemed to be their masters, and fought with tiny swords, and fired off guns, and went through a regular soldier’s drill just like the King’s own bodyguard. In fact the gypsies were a great success.

From “The Birthday Of The Infanta”