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What are days for?
Days are where we live.
They come, they wake us
Time and time over.
They are to be happy in:
Where can we live but days?
Ah, solving that question
Brings the priest and the doctor
In their long coats
Running over the fields.
—“Days” by Philip Larkin

540 years later, Oliver Osborne presents Portrait of a Youth (After Filippino Lippi) III in his first solo show with Francis Irv in New York. Using Lippi’s subject, he is set against a clear blue sky framed by the edges of a stone window, opening out to an untold vista. The background in Osborne’s tribute painting to Lippi is more visually complicated; the work is an altogether taller expanse of pale gradations and cerulean washes. Instead of a window frame, an amorphous portal of submarine blue introduces another spatial dimension behind the subject’s head. The portrait is further made interesting by an under-imposed image of a younger boy’s face, his eyes gazing out from above...More expand_more

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What are days for?
Days are where we live.
They come, they wake us
Time and time over.
They are to be happy in:
Where can we live but days?
Ah, solving that question
Brings the priest and the doctor
In their long coats
Running over the fields.
—“Days” by Philip Larkin

540 years later, Oliver Osborne presents Portrait of a Youth (After Filippino Lippi) III in his first solo show with Francis Irv in New York. Using Lippi’s subject, he is set against a clear blue sky framed by the edges of a stone window, opening out to an untold vista. The background in Osborne’s tribute painting to Lippi is more visually complicated; the work is an altogether taller expanse of pale gradations and cerulean washes. Instead of a window frame, an amorphous portal of submarine blue introduces another spatial dimension behind the subject’s head. The portrait is further made interesting by an under-imposed image of a younger boy’s face, his eyes gazing out from above...More expand_more

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106 Walker St Suite 201 (3rd Floor, New York, NY 10013, USA
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Through Oct 11, 2025
Francis Irv106 Walker St Suite 201 (3rd Floor, New York, NY 10013, USA
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