As I was browsing through images connected to my name on Google, I was surprised to find two of my paintings positioned vertically. They are always shown horizontally. When I looked a bit more closely, I realized that both paintings were on an auction. Ran by Cheffins, a company of property agents and auctioneers from Cambridge in Britain, the auction is still on. Apparently, there are no bids for the paintings yet. Next to each of them there is my name. In parentheses, it says that I am Croatian and that the paintings are from the Twentieth Century. It did not take me long to remember that I sold the pair to Pat and Victor Skipp soon after my show at EAST International in Norwich. That was in 1998, when they had a sizable collection of paintings to their name. Back then, I got two-thousand pounds sterling for the pair. Pat and Victor were an elderly couple at the time, and I wonder what has become of them. Perhaps both of them are dead already, which would explain the auction of their collection. Be that as it may, I even thought of bidding for my paintings, but I gave up quickly enough. Let the paintings fend for themselves. They will be worth millions one fine day.

Addendum (December 23, 2015)

Every now and then, I bump into the two paintings on the World Wide Web. And I am always surprised by the paucity of information about them that is available on any website where I happen to find them. I wrote to Cheffins more than a year ago, by they have never responded to my message. I explained that the paintings from the Skipp collection were a part of a large cycle entitled Cave Art Now, and that there was a book of mine about them, which was available for free on my Ca’ Bon Gallery website. I also explained that the paintings in question were at my show at Norwich in 1998, where an entire room was dedicated to them. Most important, I explained that both paintings had paintings on their backs, which made each of them two paintings in one. Nobody at the company of property agents and auctioneers could care less, though. Which probably means that the paintings were sold at the auction last year. They were none of the company’s business afterwards. Be that as it may, it is sad to see my paintings utterly lost on the web. It is as though I have been long dead already. Dead, buried, and forgotten for good…