Lot 47: Richard Lewer 20 Dollar Love acrylic and pastel on

Richard Lewer 20 Dollar Love acrylic and pastel on steel title inscribed and signed 2350mm x 1140mm In Lewer's painting "20 Dollar Love" the charm is literally scrapped away giving us an altogether more confronting scene of sexual debauchery. Painted onto sheet metal with a vigorous if not violent eradication of the standard points of focus, Lewer leaves us reading the small samples of text that point to this being an embroilment with a lady of the night. Lewer induces a moment of pondering, is this another story from a tabloid, an event from his own past or an as yet unrealised fantasy. ALF