celebrated portrait of leonard by maggi hambling

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celebrated portrait of leonard by maggi hambling

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from ipswich star :

...sense of evolution is a common factor in her work.

A portrait of Leonard Cohen started off as painting of the sound of Leonard Cohen’s voice.

“As with Amy Winehouse, you know I have a tendency to do something about someone who has died.

I was very moved by Leonard Cohen, like millions of others, and for a long while I was just trying to paint his voice and eventually it resolved itself more clearly as a portrait.

It was supposed to be a portrait of his sound, his voice, his intensity – a portrait of something that is intangible”...

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http://www.marlboroughlondon.com/artists/maggi-hambling

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggi_Hambling
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