Tom Phillips, Self-portrait, 1989

Sitter: Tom Phillips, artist, composer, writer

Medium/Date: Oil on panel, 1989

Artist's note:

The artist is the sitter who always turns up, the model who never is late. Thus I've recently got into the habit of fielding myself as substitute whenever let down in this way; my own studio's eternal twelfth man ever ready to take up position and be painted from whatever palette has been laid out.

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