James Romberger, Tres To The Bone, Stencil and Spray Paint on Board, 1988

Size: 25 x 17 inches

“In 1988 I lived in Brussels, Belgium for six months… I made several color stencil/spray paint paintings on the backs of cheap denim jackets from the local flea markets and consigned them at a friendly local vintage shop. One of those, depicting an exploding skeleton with the inscription “Tres to the Bone” (melding the French tres bon or “very good” with the blues-ism “bad to the bone”), was bought by the leader of the then-popular band Deep Purple!” – James Romberger on wherecreativityworks.com