"The Foresaken" (1999)  "The Foresaken," 1999 Private
collection, New York Courtesy Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
"When I painted the monkey wife, I painted her individually and
I named it ‘The Forsaken.’ And my idea is that what Richard
Burton did as part of his colonial enterprise was to actually
learn languages. When he would go to a new place...he would have
a woman set up house for him and become his mistress. And he
said he would learn the language that way. So this thing with
the monkey wife seemed to be perverse once you know that about
him."  - Walton Ford