A Night With Rimbaud

2008
Graphite and colored pencil on paper
Image: 6 1/2″ x 8 3/4″
Frame: 12 1/2″ x 14 3/4″
Titled, signed, and dated in the margin

Based on an image that I saw in a fashion magazine that was cropped off above the waistline, I redrew the scene with a zoomed out perspective of what a lover might see looking back at the bed from across the room. At the time, I was reading a lot about the torrid relationship between the poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, which inspired the title.