This portrait is by David Levine. He and Aaron Shikler are longtime friends who founded the Painting Group in 1958. The group is actually incorporated and Levine is CEO.
"Somehow this highly important person comes around and is going to sit," he said. "I'm only used to certain people who have a different approach to their bodies so that it enables them to pose nude and so on."
(Photo: National Portrait Gallery)
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