Somebody Died
Somebody Died

Somebody Died

Painting
ID:
1680
Cycle:
Sportsmen (XV)
Number in cycle:
128
Ending number:
373
Date:
January 1978
Medium:
acrylic; canvas;oil
Dimensions:
146 cm x 114 cm
Description:
The boys kept drinking and finally one of them died of cirrhosis, drank himself to death. Here these 40-year-olds are taking him to the graveyard and feel happy it didn't happen to them. But they, too, will be taken there, one by one. Or maybe they're happy that they will earn some money at the funeral and get well drunk afterwards. Who died? It makes no difference to them. Somebody. And it could also be so, that one of them told a joke about the coffin lid falling down, for the dead man got an erection. This is my sarcastic Memento Mori. We are sneering and giggling now, but one day... (E.D.)
Owner type:
private
Tags:
death;man;Polish people