Year: 1979.
Size: 22 x 34 inches
Israeli-born Farin painted a series of about ten images for Art d'Lugoff's Village Gate, the crowded, smoky Greenwich Village haven to jazz musicians and aficionados alike. The same year that he created a design for Dizzy Gillespie appearing at the downtown jazz den, the appearance of jazz flautist Herbie Mann at the Village Gate put Farin in a mystical mood. He places the musician against a backdrop of earth and sky and inspires him with the light of a guiding star -- an image both warm and serene that evokes Mann's playing perfectly.