José Rodeiro WAITING FOR PICABIA, oil-on-linen, 4’ x 6,’ 1998 (Collection of the artist).

In this image, José Rodeiro and Nicomedes Suárez-Araúz sit in Cadaques (in front of the Bar Meliton) playing imaginary chess with arbitrary bodegon objects. In the forefront, Marcel Duchamp analyzes a chessboard; (Duchamp lived above the Bar Meliton with Teeny Duchamp). In the composition, Garcia-Lorca and Dalí sit nearby. Surrounding their fathers are Niquito Suarez and Manuel Rodeiro (as boys), while in the background are Hemingway, G. G. Marquez, the Safc brothers (Bart and Nick) and Joan Ponc. Gala Dalí searches the Costa Brava, while Nusch Eluard brings drinks to her friends. Everyone awaits Francis Picabia a la Samuel Beckett’s Godot.