Fernando Gerassi Art


Oil, acrylic and mixt on beaverboard
Dimensions: 48x36 inch.
Date: 1967

"It was excruciatingly hard", Fernando remembers. "I hadn't held a brush for nine years. Sometimes I was convinced I could never paint again. Other times that I didn't really want to. Still, little by little, I began to breath".

Sartre visited America during that time and witnessed Fernando struggle.

"He had never before understood art very well", Fernando says, "but we had a long conversation while visiting the Modern Art Museum, just as he wrote in "Trouble Sleep".

Fernando Gerassi
Putney, Vermont, 1964.