To all my fellow veterans...

Thank you!


To all US veterans, both those who have served and those who are serving in all corners of the planet while we're home with our families. A well-deserved thank you to all the soldiers, sailors, airmen/women, Marines and Coasties.

Below is Petty Officer Third Class Lenny Campello back in 1975 while stationed aboard USS Saratoga (CV-60) in Mayport, Florida.


And then Lieutenant Commander Lenny Campello back in 1992 while assigned as the Executive Officer (XO) of NSGA Skaggs Island, California.

An old friend makes an apperance in the UK

Below is "Marilyn Monroe Sees Her Last Visitor." This original charcoal drawing was done in 1999 and exhibited and sold on opening night at DC's Fraser Gallery during my December 1999 solo show there.

It was recently purchased at auction in London and now lives in the UK.

"Marylin Monroe Sees Her Last Visitor"
1999 Charcoal on Paper by F. Lennox Campello

 

Curious Case of a Picasso and a Koch

A Picasso picture of a cabaret artist, which carries a second painting on the reverse, sold for $67.45 million in New York Thursday, scoring a windfall for American billionaire Bill Koch. 

Mr Koch, who is ranked 307 on the Forbes 400 richlist has a net worth of around $2.1 billion.  

The sale was the top lot of the season so far, proving a savvy investment for the Republican party donor who paid just $3 million for the canvas in 1984 and later discovered he got two for the price of one with a second painting on the reverse. 

Sotheby's had valued the canvas, 'La Gommeuse,' at $60 million. It was painted in Paris in 1901 when the artist was just 19 years old and grieving the suicide of a close friend.

But read about the secret in this painting that made it even more valuable! Click here. 

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