My wife is a huge supporter of the arts in our community, specifically, visual arts, painting, photography. She arranges for speakers at the Arts Council meeting, we travel to art shows, host parties, the whole deal. She saw this painter's work at a local show and loved it, she arranged to have him speak at a meeting held at our home, BTW his specialty was portrait paintings.
After the meeting my wife told me she would love to have him paint her portrait, since it was expensive, she was checking with me 1st. My business was doing well at the time, so I gave her the go ahead since this was like a dream of hers. I wanted to be surprised so I stayed out of it.
His studio was about 100 miles from where we lived, so her posing sessions were all day trips and she went 3 or 4 times. Finally it was finished and we had an unveiling party, just close family and friends, and the painting was very good, worth every penny, museum quality. Then after everyone left she said I have another surprise for you, this is why it was so expensive, she brought out another canvas, unveiled it, and there was this beautiful reclining nude of her. How daring was it? Full frontal, everything exposed.
I loved it, especially when she described how turned on she was exposing herself to the painter, but the problem was where do we hang this, certainly not in the den, too many family members, like granddaughters etc.. So I built a cabinet frame to hang it in the master bedroom with doors to cover it up when it others were around. I thought my cabinet was as much a work of art as the painting.
Who did see it? The AC repair guy, the bug man, maid service, remodeling crew when we had some work done, I think some of those guys took pics of it. So what happens, our house is robbed one day, and they took the nude, police detective, says that is the first art work her has ever seen stolen. My mail suspect is one of the guys in the remodel crew.
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