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Post #430908 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Jan 26, 2009 7:54 PM

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Here is the thread, page 3 has the most images:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=20418&forum=1&start=30

...and the website is still up!:

http://www.davegrave.com/art.htm

Here is Louis Behan, the painter:

Here are some of the portraits he was selling:

...and here is the only non-black velvet canvas painting he had. I ended up getting it, payed a pretty penny for it, but man, what a classic Polynesian pop piece. Clearly an early, more vintage work:

Here it is hanging at my house, in its original frame, in a proper environment. It's actually called "Virgin Sacrifice":