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And during one of my interviews with her, when I pressed her to single out a favorite among the many oil paintings that her mother, an amateur artist, gave her, she picked a portrait of a transvestite whom her mother had once approached on the subway in San Francisco and invited back to her house to pose.

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So I picked an oil portrait to be painted by an artist with a connection to the choir.

From the sideboard, he picks up a portrait of himself and his daughter.

The book selections are staggered so that a new fiction and nonfiction book discussion begins every few weeks; recent picks include "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," by James Joyce and "The Magic of Reality" by Richard Dawkins.

If you are not yet in the Silva fold, pick up Portrait of a Spy and get introduced.

His wife, Dana, who died in 2006, less than two years after her husband, kept some sketches but "never picked up the portrait," Ms. Davisson said.

The BP Young Artist Award went to Jamie Coreth, 26, who picks up £7,000 for a portrait called Dad Sculpting Me.

Condo did not disappoint, offering West a pick of startling images – a portrait of the singer with four sets of teeth, another with his head decapitated and impaled by a sword, and a lurid scene of a naked black man being straddled by a white phoenix-like creature.

While rifling through markets and junk shops she picked up a pair of portraits of Berber women – her mother-in-law is Berber, which is why she got them.

Trimm successfully picked out David Hasselhoff, but was stumped by a portrait of Gene Nelson.

First launched in Tokyo's Harajuku district last year, in the cradle of teenage novelty trends, the phenomenon of the 3D photo booth has quickly spread around the world: the service is now offered in Walmart and will soon be rolled out in Asda stores, so you can pick up a self-portrait with your groceries, for around £40.

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