The Dimitri Vail Gallery is an interesting gallery in Dallas. Dimitri Vail is an artist. He's one of these individuals who can paint so delicately and perfectly that you would swear it is a photograph, until you come up close to it. His paintings include Jack Benny with his notorious violin, Sophie Tucker, Bill Cosby, Rowan and Martin, Ed Sullivan, Red Buttons, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, James Dean.
And while walking through the gallery, I saw paintings of a couple of presidents. Then I came to a small-framed picture that hung there that was absolutely unfamiliar. It was drab, done in browns and grays. At first I thought how inappropriate. In the midst of these dazzling entertainers and famous people hangs this unknown. I asked someone on duty, "Who's that?" He smiled and he said, "I'm asked that a lot. It's a self-portrait of the artist. It's Dimitri Vail. He painted it during one of the darkest periods of his life.  It's a very recent work."

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