Has there been any figurative painter since whose work has equal pictorial and emotional power? (thesilo.raphaelrubinstein.com)
His early work was figurative but he moved towards abstraction from the late 1960s onwards, and is renowned for his large - scale paintings saturated with colour. (royalacademy.org.uk)
It could have been a figurative painting of some poetic woman in bed screaming or crying, but it wasn't, it was actually a bed and that was transformative. (lehmannmaupin.com)