Similarly, the
smaller portrait The Guilt of Looking, 2014, uses an extreme economy of means —
pencil — and produces not just verisimilitude but an uncanny aura around the figure's coiffure and cashmere sweater.
His large sepia - toned acrylic and silkscreen 1966
portrait of Marlon Brando in a scene from «The Wild One,» Lot 12, sold well over its high estimate of $ 2 million to a private collector for $ 2,642,500 (including the buyer's premium), but a
small 1962 casein and
pencil on canvas of a Campbell's Chicken With Rice Soup Can painting, Lot 13, that had been estimated at $ 600,000 to $ 800,000 soared to $ 1,652,500 (including the buyer's premium, much to the consternation of the determined underbidder, a woman in a black suit, high heels and wearing large earrings, who immediately got up from her seat and left with her companion after the lot was knocked down.
Executed in oil paint, watercolour, ink or
pencil, her
small but intense
portraits may be inspired by photographs in the media, but often and increasingly they are drawn from life.