As if Santiago of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea had gone out again for priceless discoveries, but this time with a group of friends.
The singularity of this painting is striking, yet it also reminds me of work products from Van Gogh’s period in Arles.
Notice the exact synchronicity between the principal objects (and their coordination) in this remarkable painting and those recorded in the second-to-last photo (#23) in the photo-essay below about the Venetian hotel-casino in Las Vegas.