meenie thompson pays a visit to what used to be her husband's favorite diner. the walls are adorned with a number of rosenquist paintings in tribute to the great artist. in 2017 shadowman studio prepared a large selection of rosenquist paintings for a retrospective in germany. morocco penya was charged with cleaning the works the. without making them look new again so as to retain the sense of history. i haven't seen this beautiful glowing stay just coming through so this edge here is not yet cleaned and you see the finger marks and the abrasion of the different her nose and. and the clean this side. and overshadowed by. the opposing conditions at the moment is that the nice thing about all these words is that you still see the history if you didn't if educate the history it would have lost aura of this from the seventies and we all know different pieces of information so it's great when we all get together or talk to every writer down there yes. which is they were important to that would be a great thing we haven't forgotten that you know. you. know jim would

rosenquist was one of the great protagonists of the pop art movement his widow meenie thompson is now responsible for the many works he left behind works dominated by the themes of advertising and the american dream. we have a lovely team that works together and try it we try to imagine what jim would want to do as far as exhibition. selling more and. storing work and everything so. i don't think we can actually be his voice but the next best thing which would be some somebody who cares about the work and really tries to imagine what he would do if he were in our situation so. it's. is that's not an easy role. mimi thompson pays a visit to what used to be her husband's favorite diner. the walls are adorned with a number of rosenquist paintings in tribute to the great artist. in 2017 shadowman studio prepared a large selection of rosenquist paintings for a retrospective in germany. morocco penya was charged with cleaning the works. without making them look new again so as to retain the sense of history. i haven't seen in this beautiful glowing story because i mean so this edge here is