I remembered that she was in a tube in the closet and suggested to Cybil that we get her framed for Cybil's new studio. So we brought her to the Frame Store in Encino and had a really classy frame designed by Luben Romanov. I never realized before what an art it is to design the right frame for a painting. We agreed upon this pair of interlocking hand-finished Italian frames, with a lush skin-toned matting, and a thin gold-painted bamboo inner frame. With the frame she's a little over 4 feet tall 3 feet wide, and so very very naked. The framing really just makes her skin tones pop.
One last thing: the glass. We have five paintings in our one bedroom apartment, but they're all behind mediocre glass. It's UV coated, but the coating has long since worn off, and the glare is pretty bad. This new frame was done with museum quality conservation glass. It's amazing. Unless you catch it at the exact wrong angle – there's a fluorescent bulb at a sharp angle, and you're standing at the opposite sharp angle – you can't even tell there's any glass.
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