FANTOMAS! (PORTRAIT OF JOHN KARBORN)

Oil on canvas. WHAT CAN I BE THINKING OF? Just imagine my not having presented myself to you even yet! But as a matter of fact I do not want to tell you my name out loud; it is a romantic one, utterly inappropriate to the typically modern environment in which we now stand. Ah, if we were only on the steep side of some mountain with the moon like a great lamp above us, or by the shore of some wild ocean, there would be some glamour in proclaiming my identity in the silence of the night or in the midst of lightning and thunder as a hurricane swept the seas!