Vernissage One

Here in Berlin they call art openings “Vernissage” a nice French sounding word pronounced “ver-nay-saj”. We have attended several since our arrival and have been invited to so many it’s been hard to keep track of them all. There was some mix up as to the official date of ours, we were originally told it was the 14th, then Pablo’s publicist had it as the 16th so we printed all our invitations and posters with that corrected date. Then the four women painters who are from Germany, Brussels and Stockholm who are doing the show in the front gallery, had apparently hired dancers and drummers for the 15th. So in the end to appease all parties we decided to do a vernasache on both dates, and the first one was last night.
There were about 60 – 70 people in attendance, mostly supporters and fans of the four women painters but we did have several people come to see our show as well. There were dancers and drummers, slide shows, cheap wine, strange snacks and gasp…..art sales!!!
Sandy the primary painter in the womens show sold seven paintings to one collector and we made five sales from our show. Now mind you ours are going for about 90% off, but it was still thrilling none the less and yours truly sold 3 pieces. Some of our art will now be going to live in Miami, Brussels and Berlin.
So I am happy to report that I have paid for at least one of my boots, let’s say the left one, the whole of the sexy skirt and all the second hand store purchases and still have change left over for a few 1 Euro veggie-donairs.
Life is good.