The Portrait Now

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The Portrait Now was a major international overview of contemporary portraiture held in 1993-4 at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Among many others it included portraits by Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Stephen Finer, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Jeff Koons, Leon Kossoff, Alice Neel, Julian Schnabel and Andy Warhol.

Subjects

Varied subjects included self-portraits: Koons, Neel, Penck, less known figures and some famous names: Joseph Beuys by Warhol, Marlene Dietrich by Finer, President Mitterrand by Organ, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu by Marisol.

References

A catalogue of the same name by Robin Gibson was published by the National Portrait Gallery to coincide with the exhibition - ISBN 1855140985 The Portrait Now

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