"People always ask me, 'Are you going to paint men?' and I always say, 'Well how do you know that I haven't?' " she said.
―Leonard Nathan "I want to paint men and women with that something of the eternal which the halo used to symbolize and which we seek to convey by the actual radiance and vibration of our coloring," wrote Vincent van Gogh in one of his celebrated letters.
He coated me with creams, moisturizers and bronzers and explained: "We're getting your face painted, man".
His 1928 painting Man with a Newspaper, which hangs in Tate Modern, depicts exactly what it says in the title.
In May 2008, the painting "Man Crazy Nurse No. 2" by Richard Price, a popular contemporary artist, sold for $7.4 million.
But Martin Gayford, an art critic who Mr Freud transformed into the painting "Man With a Blue Scarf", enjoyed several months of uninhibited access to the painter.
In his recently published book, "Dogs Rule Nonchalantly," Ulriksen explains his predilection for painting man's best friend: "Dogs give you their undivided attention," he writes.
Another de Kooning painting, "Man" (1967), with brushy strokes and pinkish tones, sold for $4 million $4.5 millionn including Christie's buyer's premium).
Blume's painting "Man of Sorrows" (1951) shows a brown-skinned, unnaturally thin, highly stylized representation of Christ carrying his cross while wearing a crown of thorns.
Albert Tucker painted Man's Head to capture the moral disintegration, and lack of conscience, of a man convicted of kicking a dog to death.
