Not That Innocent

By Paul McEvinney

Not That Innocent

By Paul McEvinney

  • Date of Artwork: March 2026
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Size: 16” x 16”
  • Sold: No

 

Description

A small study for a painting.

During all his recent media coverage, saw an image of Lord M turned slightly to his left but looking to his right which recalled the pose of Innocent X in his portrait by Diego V; that in turn made me think of seeing Lord M at his Introduction to The House of Lords in a red woollen robe with a white collar. Decided to paint him wearing a hybrid of the Papal satin and Lords’ woollen robes; decided further to deploy a white towelling bathrobe (from a widely utilised news image of the disgraced peer holidaying on Epstein’s island)  instead of white linen vestments and, in place of Velazquez’s letter of introduction and recommendation, stuck a mashup of Mandy’s messages to Epstein in his L hand. If parodying this was good enough for Dali, Bacon and others, I’m happy to follow on and, since I was plagiarising anyway, took a  Britney Spears song line for a title.

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