The piece in question is a currently untitled charcoal drawing from my Life Drawing class this past semester. It is my own modern rendition of Las Meninas by Diego Velasquez, and the reason it's being sold, I'm sure, is that I appear twice in the double self-portrait - once clothed, once nude. Such a body is looked over and not overlooked, apparently even by the Director of University Collections himself. My natural charms are winsome, to say the least.
As proof of the outlandishly flattering reason behind the sale of such a picture, I have included the email I received from my professor of Life Drawing which notified me of the pending sale:
Hi Brett and Rick,(Emphasis added)
There is a charcoal drawing in the hall outside life drawing that Henry
Matthews in interested in purchasing for the university collection. It
is a double self portrait with a guy in the front lower right facing the
viewer, and in the back space a nude version of himself posing
coquettishly. If this is your student, will you let me know, and
contact him and ask him if he will sell the piece to the school for $50?
Then I can get the rest of the information to you about where he should
bring it, how to get paid, etc.
Thanks,
Jill
Apparently, the Director of University Collections could not resist my charms.
