An Original Painting by M. Levett
I’ve finally got around to putting some paintings on the wall.
An Original Oil Painting by M. Levett
This painting is the first to go up and is an original oil by a barrister called Levett, who once came on holiday with us at our house in France. This is the story of the painting from the original post.
One holiday stands out. C and I took, one of her barrister colleagues, away to the house for a few days. He was and hopefully still is very outspoken. He would lie on that beach and say in a loud upper-class English voice, ‘Look at that lump of lard over there’ at some lady who’d been eating for two. Luckily, no-one understood his English or perhaps most were laughing with him.
That holiday too we went to a Michelin starred restaurant in Antibes, where the wine waiter was the spitting image of Stephen Fry, doing an impression of Lord Melchett from Blackadder, doing a cariacature of a wine waiter complete with tastevin. He never understood why we kept laughing at him.
The painting was a contribution to his lodging and very much a surprise to both of us. Especially in its quality. Note the label on the bottle says Chateau Melchett.
The Anonymous Widower 
[…] As we both had a Brooksian sense of humour and were a great fan of his films, there is a lot of scope for an establishment, which is a complete send up of some of the pompous places you find in cities like London. And not just London! One of the funniest meals we ever had was at a two-Michelin star restaurant called La Bonne Auberge in Antibes. The story is here. […]
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