Commissioned Painting
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Finished RFK commission
2006
oil on canvas
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detail of harpooner (unfinished)

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detail of unfinished top left

Robert F. Kennedy JR asked for a painting in Sasha's "inimitable style" to depict the peg-leg captain Daggett, and his crew, posing before a painting of their near disaster in the south seas. A painting of a painting within a painting.......
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detail- stripping and boiling whale blubber

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detail lower left corner (unfinished)
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detail, hand

Sasha Chermayeff Commissioned Painting oil on canvas
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For RFK, JR - seascape (unfinished)
2005-2006
oil on canvas
64 x 48 inches

The work was interpreted from a mural at the town hall, in Tisbury, MA. It tells the story of a famous 19th century whaling expedition that became Martha's Vineyard lore.