Lot Essay
                                "Painting for me is the subject. The figure exists only through paint, through color, line, tone and mark-making." (L. Yiadom-Boakye, quoted in interview with N. Nathan, "Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's Fashionable Eye," T Magazine, https://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/15/lynette-yiadom-boakeyes-fashionable-eye/, 15 November 2010)
                            
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