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# Fruit Saint (with bananas), 8-20-2020
- URL: https://www.rbcdart.com/fruit-saint-with-bananas/
- Published: 2020-08-20T20:51:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-09-01T20:52:12.000Z
- Description: just could not put this in a safe place
- Author: Richard Baer ChauDavis
- Tags: Ace, Artifacts, zzz-2020, Public SFW, Destroyed

[Destroyed - museo de rbcdartDestroyed, peeled, painted over, or thrown away is not the same as never created or abandoned.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/92/6d/926d519d-f11f-485f-bd18-8456e07a63e7/content/images/size/w256h256/format/jpeg/2023/05/20191208-Before-Coffee12-6-2019-2of3.jpg)museo de rbcdart![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/92/6d/926d519d-f11f-485f-bd18-8456e07a63e7/content/images/2022/11/Moon-arthaw77-Edit.jpg)](https://www.rbcdart.com/tag/destroyed-works/)

Area's in the face started to annoy me, tried some things and then peeled the entire piece officially destroying it.

Started as a photo collaboration with Ace during a fruit shoot.

We Researched it a bit. There are all sorts of cultural references; Josephine Baker; the large and public protest over the censorship of work done by Natalia LL in Warsaw; the Chiquita sponsored death squads (alleged) in Columbia; and, the really catchy Chiquita commercials with Monica Lewis (deceased). The fun aspect was also a large part of the process.

I mounted a 300lb Hot Press underprint on primed and cradled hardboard. Worked for several days on the piece, creating texture, using heavy gel medium, acrylics, metallic acrylics, micron pens.

12x16x1.5," 3 coats Liquitex Acrylic Gloss Varnish, mixed media, Black on sides, wired and ready to hang.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/92/6d/926d519d-f11f-485f-bd18-8456e07a63e7/content/images/2023/09/Fruit-Saint-with-Banana-Front--FruitSaint-5878-Edit-01-2.JPG)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/92/6d/926d519d-f11f-485f-bd18-8456e07a63e7/content/images/2023/09/Fruit-Saint-with-Banana--Back--FruitSaint-5881-Edit-02.JPG)