Bronson Painting Looks for a New Home

November 6th, 2010

The artwork of Helmut Harrdinger is up for sale again after the previous buyer decided that it was too disturbing to keep.

Harrdingers masterpiece “Bronson” has had twelve different owners in its chequered 30 year history.

“Bronson has always been a troubling work” art critic Ann Huggler confided “I am sure the depiction of martial arts in this way does have appeal for some, but so far it has almost been a bit of a curse to those who buy it”

Bronson portrays two MMA specialists fighting in front of a Victorian fireplace, much like the scene with Ralph Bates and Oliver Reed from DH Lawrences’ “Women in Love”

They have ripped fightwear teeshirts and are engaged in a fight to the death. One is clearly in distress, and it is the pain so obviously portrayd in the painting that has disturbed so many previous owners and made Bronson a real mystery. It is now valued at one and a half million pounds.

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