LIVERPOOL-BASED artist Alex Corina finally had his celebratory work marking Liverpool's European Capital of Culture success unveiled to the public last night.
He created his piece The Three Graces some time ago but it has never been on public display.
The print - featuring three scantily-clad females in the classical tradition reclining in front of the Albert Dock - was the centrepiece of Corina's exhibition which opened at the restaurant, 60, Hope Street in Liverpool.
It followed on the success of his Mona Lennon, his art work which transformed Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa into a John Lennon lookalike.
A giant version of it was hung over St. George's Hall when Liverpool was bidding for the Capital of Culture title and thought by many to be one of the reasons for the city's success.
The Three Graces has a similar humorous slant with the three women - taken from a painting in The Walker - looking very incongruous in the Liverpool waterfront setting.
The sky in the print was taken from a Canaletto painting, Corina revealed.
Corina, 55, admitted that the humour was part of his art. "Art should be fun," he says..
It is a philosophy he obtained after nearly dying of heart failure six years ago.
He was working as a civil servant, heading up Liverpool's drugs prevention programme at the time.
