I think this might have been the first attempt at trying Impressionism. I can't recall now, it was either this or the Marco that you read about earlier. Needless to say they were both done at the same time. This one actually received a bit of alteration several years after it was first completed. I never was happy with it so I altered the curtains in the background. I don't know if that is against the rules of painting but tough, it was done.
This is on canvas board and of course painting in acrylics and painted mostly with a pallet knife.
The painting is of Chung Ling Soo a vaudeville magician who was really an American named William Robinson. He created this chinese character after seeing the real chinese magician Ching Ling Foo. Soo died on stage while performing the very dangerous Bullet Catching Trick.
In the movie 'The Prestige' Chung shows up very briefly in the early part of the movie. He is the only real life magician mentioned in the movie all the others are fictional.
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