A close friend for years, Rechany stayed at our apartment in New York and painted this portrait of my father in 1974. He fell in love with the orange chair in our living room and later painted a series of "orange chair" paintings which are now famous. We still have the actual orange chair that gave birth to the series and I believe this painting is the first of the orange chair series that features a portrait of an actual person.

The orange chair appears again in this painting, inspired I've been told, by a movie Rechany saw which features a boy with a drum.

This is Rechany's painting of Don Quixoti de la Mancha.

Rechany's "Virgin del Camino" with a crown of thorns has hung in my parents' room for years beyond counting.

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