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Gernot Riedmann 395 x 400 pixels, 26 Kb
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Gernot Riedmann is a collector from Austria who on intermittent business trips to London has bought works of mine. Having acquired the group of studies of Pella Erskine-Tulloch he decided he wanted his own portrait painted. He needed it to be the same size as a large painting of mine that he owned that was in turn based on one of the miniatures that I had made in the series Large Paintings Small Galleries. Since he could not sit for me he suggested that I paint him from photographs which he would send. When these arrived they were far too professional, sharp, and achieved for me to work from. I waited till his next London visit and had him sit for some more useful, slapdash, and fuzzy polaroids. From these and from an inch-square reproduction of the painting in his collection I made the portrait. The painting became both background and environment: it changed in intriguing ways as he grew to replace one of its main features. What I most liked is the fact that the collector had half entered his collection, and, by his presence in one of its items, had caused that work to alter. The Portrait Works (1989), p. 27.
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