With charcoal underdrawing on linen canvas from the High Atlas series of 2008. The series won the artist critical acclaim when displayed in his solo ICA show Billy Childish: Unknowable but Certain in 2010, and commercial success with a subsequent sell out presentation of his work at Art Basel Miami. The artist is depicted in a yellow suit, making reference to a character in Mysteries, Hamsun’s novel of 1892 who arrives in a small Norwegian town wearing a yellow suit, and who proceeds to create turmoil in the contented community through his eccentric and provocative behaviour. The existential notion of a man ‘out-of-time’ is present in the writings of Hamsun, and is also evident in much of Childish’s work, which expresses a desire for a spiritual response to the world, a response often cast in opposition to the status quo. The work has been reproduced in articles about Childish’s work. The work is housed the original frame