I took THE painting I bought in Iraq down to the frame shop yesterday. This is a big painting -31" by 39" not counting the overhanging canvas which will either serve for stretching the canvas out or stitching to prevent possible cracking. This painting is big with lots of texture in the intricately paislied painted border. It needs a substantial frame. The one I looked at was over $20 per foot.
So its going to be expensive to frame, at least three times what I paid for the painting itself. But its a great painting of a slightly middle eastern looking girl in a tight fitted yellow sash dress with a red camiela in her hair. Very nice. It looks old but probably isn't. Or it may be stolen from some museum...I don't know, time will tell. I bought it at the al-Rasheed Hotel from admist a stack of antiques and ivory carved into corn cobs and scenes of elephant hunts.
I'd like to take my painting to the Antiques Road Show one day. Its fascinating how one of their experts can look at something and know so much about it. The stuff we have is nice to posses but to actually know something about it takes the object to a whole new level. Its the old Victorian habit I guess of liking "stuff". I may furnish my house with plastic lawn chairs but amid my rocks, knives, guitars and paintings I have "stuff".
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