Presence Of The Outer Space 1988 UFO Extraterrestrial Jewel by Jude Thegenus WOW

Description: 9/20/18 IMPORTANT UPDATE: PLEASE NOTE THAT I WENT THROUGH A PROCEDURE FOR A DETACHED RETINA IN MY RIGHT EYE ON SEPTEMBER 18TH, 2018 SO FOR AN UNDETERMINED PERIOD OF TIME I CANNOT DRIVE ANYWHERE OF GREAT DISTANCE TO FULFILL PERSONAL DELIVERY AS OFFERED!! I'M VERY SORRY! VIEW FAR MORE DETAILS BELOW INCLUDING FREE SHIPPING OPTIONS which can include personal delivery anywhere in the continental U.S. unless opting for a local pickup! Please Note: The dimensions for a package duplicated from my other listing are inaccurate for this painting but I can't change them nor predict in advance what they will be at this time!! A BRIEF HISTORY: I have been the sole owner since buying this nearly 36 year old masterpiece directly from a representative salesman of the Earth Art Gallery on South Dixie Highway in West Palm Beach who had many paintings by the artist Jude Thegenus on display there prior to a formal promotional showing of his work some months later at the Earth Art Gallery when I met Jude there. I resided in West Palm Beach for almost 16 years from the end of 1988 until early November of 2004 when I moved here to the NE Georgia mountains over 100 miles north of Atlanta. Photo #6 shows a Xerox of Jude's biography. Photo #7 shows color photo representations of 5 of 6 original paintings I owned, 4 of which I still own. In photo #7 moving counter-clockwise from the top middle you see UFO Dream offered in another listing, this painting Presence Of The Outer Space, My Native Home offered in another listing, Maternity & Otherworld Presence which I gifted to my friend Gil as noted below on the bottom right. All are original paintings of his that are either acrylic or oil which I had purchased by March of 1992. My first purchase directly from The Earth Art Gallery which was another multiple UFO/Outer Space themed piece is not shown here. Otherworld Presence (the one I could most easily part with as potentially my least favorite) I gifted as a very generous Christmas/December 26th birthday present to one of my best friends in WPB several years before I moved to Georgia. Had Gil not suggested we stop into the Earth Art Gallery one evening after I'd picked him up & was on the way driving back to my house, I might never have ever even seen any of Jude's paintings! So THAT was why my gratitude to Gil was such that I thought he deserved to have one & there was no way he could have afforded it otherwise. Two of the other paintings have been offered for sale for awhile at varying reduced prices until I decided to offer this one also today on January 28th, 2021 after a dream I had on 1/17/21 prompting me to do so. PLEASE NOTE: If either of the other paintings sell I will withdraw this listing! I'm not willing to sell more than 1 of these paintings & if someone tries to buy more than 1 I will cancel all but the initial purchase!! HOWEVER, IF someone's inclined to make me a group offer TOTALING MORE THAN ALL 3 OF MY BINs my ears are potentially open!!! It's hard to believe that it's been over 10 years since I initially very reluctantly listed "My Native Home" shown in photos #10-#12 (here again) which I will end the listing on if either of the others sell. Photo #8 shows "Maternity" which I purchased on July 13, 1990. I had a very vivid & somewhat disturbing dream while in WPB which it appeared in one night that I wish I would have been able to interpret the symbolic message(s) of!! I also realized on several occasions during psychedelic acid trips that it became THE most 3 dimensional of all of them along with the first one I bought entitled UFO Dreams aka New World Dreams which is not shown here! Photos #1 through #5 show "Presence Of The Outer Space". It was the second one I purchased somewhat prior to "Maternity" in June 1990 from The Earth Art Gallery & only 2-3 weeks after the first one following much contemplation one day for 1-2 hours trying to make up my mind which one to buy next! BTW this painting was Gil's favorite one which he told me one day was because he considered it the most organic one! They are all sole one of a kind originals that have never been duplicated via any reproductions whatsoever! In the interim couple of weeks another great surrealistic outer space themed one had been purchased by someone else providing ample evidence that I wasn't the only one willing to pay a substantial price for great art created by master Jude Thegenus! I might add that I was fortunate in the sense that I had just settled my parents estate on Long Island as executor on behalf of myself & my brother the year before. So I had substantial capitol to spend on original artwork that had moved me more than any I'd ever seen before then, not to mention little since! THE TRUE VALUE OF ORIGINAL ARTWORK: Continuing on there's 2 POINTS I want to make of great importance regarding the value of original art & why I firmly believe that the prices I'm offering these paintings for is not only VERY fair but potentially far less than they could have been elevated to in price decades ago not long after I bought them. As I referenced above Andrea Greene was 1 of 2 women acting as a spokesperson & promoter of Jude's work. The other was an Hispanic lady who's name I don't recall that was operating out of Miami. Anyway Andrea acted as an intermediary on my behalf that initial night at the Earth Art Gallery in negotiations between myself & Jude who spoke very little English & I'm not at all fluent in Spanish. She proceeded to tell Jude that I had already bought 2 of his paintings very recently for full price from E.A.G. prior to that point proving my serious interest in & appreciation of his work! She then asked him what kind of a potential price break he might consider under those circumstances for the unframed My Native Home which he had brought with him that night which I expressed a strong interest in having just seen it, adding that I was already committed to buying a 3rd painting Maternity for full gallery price also! He ended up agreeing to reducing my cost for My Native Home by 1/3rd or 33 1/3% which is what I ended up eventually paying for it albeit over 1 1/2 years later as things evolved! Shortly after that I completed the deal for Maternity buying it on July 13th,1990. However, I ended up getting cold feet & balked at laying out substantially more capitol for My Native Home at that point telling Andrea that I wanted to hold off for awhile, adding that my mortgage payments were well over $1,000.00 a month. We kept in touch every couple of months as she moved around WPB with her boyfriend & did other art show promotions, one of which I attended at a gallery in Palm Beach in 1991. (FIRST: Around that time she told me that she had been urging Jude to do a showing of his work at some galleries located in NYC because there was definite interest that had been conveyed to her in his work from contacts she had made there. She said that although he acknowledged what she was conveying & seemed interested in following through with it, he wasn't taking any actions towards making it happen! She then told me literally that she would have had to get him to pack a suitcase, drive him to the airport & physically lead him up the gangplank of the airplane after buying him a ticket to actually make it happen!! So that shows that had he been a little more aggressive in promoting his own career rather than being a very passive mild mannered artist, he could have been a lot more recognized for his talent & consequently have his paintings escalate to substantially higher prices!) Later on after moving into a different apartment complex in WPB she invited me over 1 day to talk & touch base again, saying she still had some of Jude's artwork in her possession. When I got over there she showed me the 3 paintings of his she had, being My Native Home, Otherworld Presence & UFO Dream. She referenced my strong former interest in wanting My Native Home for 1/3 off the price as Jude had agreed to well over a year before & suggested that if I still wanted it + the 2 others, she would talk to Jude & see what kind of a deal he'd consider for all 3. I replied that my ears were open & the rest as they say is history, because soon after I ended up buying all 3 on March 16th,1992 & doubling the # of his paintings I was the proud owner of from 3 to 6! Essentially I got 1/2 off one of the other ones which also certainly factored into my gifting Otherworld Presence to my friend Gil! FIRST: As anyone appreciates, the value of any piece of art is dependent upon 2 factors. The achieved fame & resultant recognition of an artists work once it has been effectively promoted garnering them greater respect & collect-ability. SECOND: What anyone is willing to pay at any given time for any piece of artwork, regardless of what it might have sold for before. This is why auctions can & do set records pushing the values of some art to new heights never seen or achieved previously! And with that point I direct any viewers to consider the following. Take the case of Jackson Pollock & take note of what some of his work has sold for! I submit to you that much of it looks like a kid with no artistic training, background or talent threw a bunch of paint on a canvas! Yet he's famous. Reference what some recent art sold for in auctions by Christies-View Online Magazine #111: Mark Rothco-Saffron Lot 6B Cy Twombly-Untitled Lot 15B Price realised Price realised USD 46,437,500 It's mind boggling that anyone would pay these kinds of prices for this stuff, but you be the judge!! USD 32,375,000 They are all among my most cherished possessions which I've been very grateful to have grace my homes both in WPB for over 14 years & now here for over 16 years & counting!! 5/17/22 UPDATE & MY CURRENT PLAN FOR SUMMER 2022: Because high resolution full size digital scans of original artwork including textures reproduced are now available at an Atlanta location that has the machine I will be getting the 3 Jude paintings scanned soon at which point I'll be offering copies of them for substantially less money & withdrawing the originals from being offered for sale. Unfortunately, I have not been able to do the digital scans planned for last summer as referenced above because of a loss of secondary income in early June of 2022 playing piano locally for tips. SHIPPING DETAILS 9/20/18 UPDATE: PLEASE NOTE THAT I WENT THROUGH A PROCEDURE FOR A DETACHED RETINA IN MY RIGHT EYE ON SEPTEMBER 18TH, 2018 SO FOR AN UNDETERMINED PERIOD OF TIME I CANNOT DRIVE ANYWHERE TO FULFILL PERSONAL DELIVERY AS OFFERED! THE PAINTING WILL HAVE TO BE CRATED & SHIPPED VIA UPS OR USPS OR FedEX unless you can visit here or any location between Asheville, Athens & Atlanta. I've made the shipping free which I'd have to work out the logistics of. However, for your ultimate protection against damage or theft as well as my own peace of mind I prefer to deliver it myself this spring/summer/fall to any buyer within the continental U.S. unless opting for a local pickup!! I'll gladly make winter delivery as well, as long as no snow or icy conditions apply to your location at the time!! 9/20/18 PER ABOVE 9/20/18 UPDATE 9/20/18 I CAN NO LONGER MAKE ANY PERSONAL DELIVERY UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE!! LOCAL PICKUP IS AVAILABLE BUT NO INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING. HOWEVER I WILL SELL TO AN INTERNATIONAL BUYER IF they are willing to fly over here ARRANGING TO MEET FOR FREE LOCAL PICKUP HERE OR in the greater Atlanta or Asheville areas which I'm about equal distance from at just over 100 miles from each locale. I'm willing to deliver the painting to anyone within the greater Atlanta or Asheville areas OR to anyone residing within a 250 mile radius of my location here absolutely free!! If you live further away than that but are a seriously interested potential buyer please contact me directly because I'm still confident we can work something else out to our mutual satisfaction. I am both reasonable and flexible. Lastly, if any potential buyer wants to arrange shipping themselves and we can agree on the inherent parameters and costs (including full insurance coverage) which I will pay for, I am fully supportive of that potential option also. MORE HISTORICAL INFORMATION!! A few more details that got lost from my elaborate initial description and overview of My Native Home referenced in that listing are as follows. Unlike that one this painting WAS on display in the Earth Art Gallery BUT NOT ANYWHERE ELSE LATER ON TO MY KNOWLEDGE. When I met Jude that night referenced above I agreed to buy "My Native Home" & another one which was "Maternity" that I bought prior to it on the date I listed above because it's written in my notebook. As things evolved I never actually purchased the latter 3 paintings until March 16th,1992, which is also written in my notebook. FYI the two largest surrealistic paintings that were displayed for sale during the duration of the Earth Art Gallery presentation of Jude's work were both priced at $50,000.00 each!! One of those which was a vertical/ portrait themed piece had a very sociopolitical/militaristic theme with a menacing dictator figure in the center towards the top looming like a deity over some native civilians who were shown in the foreground in a peaceful confrontation with a few of his military soldiers who were in the process of ruthlessly gunning some of them down with sub-machine guns. There were 1 or 2 dead prone bodies lying on the ground near the bottom depicted with their departing spirits rising up out of their now lifeless bodies! Very riveting intense stuff but not what some folks would want to have on their wall, myself included. I heard later on from one of two free-lance women promoters of his work (one being Andrea Greene) that on a trip back to Haiti he had one of those largest 2 paintings that was in his possession at the time confiscated by the militaristic Haitian customs goon squad!! Once again a sad example of how a tyrannical regime & some of those people in positions of apparent power & authority with asinine limited mentalities & awareness attempt to discredit and eliminate artistic themes or any truthful free speech which boldly criticizes the military and/or corrupt governments. What happened in Argentina later on was even worse from what I read some years ago & is now being played out in spades! Now it's clearly becoming a worldwide epidemic which should prove to anyone anywhere that immorality, tyranny & oppression are the norm when it comes to what to expect from corrupt bankrupt governments staffed with criminally insane sociopaths intent upon enslaving their own populations at and for any price! Beware, take care & stay safe if at all possible because the storm & global economic meltdown is fast approaching on the horizon!!! Addendum: Well it's really hitting us full force now a mere 4 years after I was compelled to write the above with world wide unrest, greater humanity in turmoil & The Deep State waging war within our own government trying to overthrow a fairly elected president who's called out & exposed the lame stream media for the traitorous liars of hypocrisy that they are!! Not since JFK's assassination when I was a young lad growing up in Canada in a Toronto suburb have I seen anyone trying so hard to serve the people & restore the USA back to what it once was as a Republic. As Thomas Jefferson replied to a woman who queried what had been established initially, "It's a Republic mam if we can keep it"!! Another of his famous quotes which has never been more relevant throughout history than it is today in late 2017, that being "The Price of Freedom Is Eternal Vigilance"! Please Pray For Providence & Freedom For Greater Humanity!!!

Price: 15600 USD

Location: Lakemont, Georgia

End Time: 2024-12-28T13:38:31.000Z

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