This is a fantasy scene I created in 1985. I was watching the movie Wallenberg, starring Richard Chamberlin about Raoul Wallenberg the Swedish diplomat who ran an underground railroad helping to rescue Jews in Budapest Hungary from Nazi death camps during world war II. There was a scene where Wallenberg walks out of a building to meet someone secretly at the foot of a hill that looked like it could have been at the foot of Monmartre in Paris. I took that momentary image that I saw and quickly drew what was my impression of the scene. I developed the composition using a coffee table book I bought on Paris for the architectural detailing and painted this watercolor which has been one of my favorite watercolors of my entire career. The painting is 18x 24 inches and is owned by Datum Inc.
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DEE JOBES PHOTOGRAPHY 01 Jan 2013
A Fine Art Masterpiece!!!Powerful...Brilliant...Very Moving...Great!!!ruth sears 07 Mar 2010
wow,just amazing,I cannot get over the detail in your work.Maria Anna Machado 09 Apr 2009
Marvelous.silvana vistola 29 Mar 2009
fantastic!Heloisa Castro 28 Mar 2009
very good!!!pamela jones 28 Mar 2009
So beautiful, love the detail StantonAnneke Hut 28 Mar 2009
I can imagine this is your favourite, Stanton. The scenery is so lovely and the light so bright. It must feel good to see this hanging on the wall.Julie Mayser 28 Mar 2009
Absolutely marvelous.... you have captured the flavor that was never really there! So well done, as always, Stanton!Reba McDonald 28 Mar 2009
Another masterpiece Stanton.Stefani Wehner 28 Mar 2009
one word: WONDERFUL!Marika Antal 28 Mar 2009
OOOHHH!!! My God!!! This is so incredibly work,or though i know Kovacs, im from same place as he is!!!Emily Reed 28 Mar 2009
WONDERFUL PAINTING, AS ALWAYS!Kovács János 28 Mar 2009
Fantastic painting, Stanton!!