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| Francis Bacon Three Studies for a Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne (I) 1965 oil on canvas Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich |
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| Francis Bacon Three Studies for a Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne (II) 1965 oil on canvas Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich |
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| Francis Bacon Three Studies for a Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne (III) 1965 oil on canvas Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich |
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| Alberto Giacometti The Artist's Mother 1949 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Gilbert Spencer Self Portrait 1914 oil on canvas The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent |
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| Frank Auerbach J.Y.M. 1 1981 oil on board Southampton City Art Gallery |
from An Aubade
She said what about San Francisco? Another
second chance. There would be bridges "shrouded
in fog." Streets "pregnant and glowing" with traffic.
Dawn, she didn't know, would maybe "draw near."
He said dawn draws near everywhere. She said
a city but a city close to nature. A backyard
scattered with birds he wouldn't be able to identify
and something exotic rotting. Avocadoes.
They'd play a game on the bridge, she'd lose
control of the car, he'd kick her foot away
and mash the gas pedal to the floor until she
screamed and they'd have a name for the game
and later it would be a story for their kids if
they had any kids later. But no city is close to nature.
– Joel Brouwer (2008)
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| Henri Matisse Portrait of Greta Moll 1908 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Marie Laurencin Head of a Young Woman 1926 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| David Bomberg Self Portrait 1937 oil on cardboard Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
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| David Bomberg Vigilante 1955 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Patrick Heron Portrait of T.S. Eliot 1949 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Josef Herman Portrait of Professor Alan M. Boase 1942 tempera and gouache on board Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow |
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| Jacob Kramer Dolores ca. 1934 oil on canvas The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent |
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| Wyndham Lewis Portrait of the Artist as the Painter Raphael 1921 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Lucian Freud Small Head 1973-74 and 1981 oil on canvas Southbank Centre, London |