"Melting into you" is at Cecil Sharp House in Primrose Hill from 2pm to 4pm on Saturday 14 December, and consists of 20 or so small portraits on paper of Sylvia Plath, Pussy Riot, Cara Delevingne and Sienna Miller, among others.
Philippe Perrot paints with topical antiseptic; Asianpunkboy uses a mixture of bodily fluid and Pepto-Bismol to embellish a portrait embossed on paper.
She will be the first woman in more than a century honored with a portrait on American paper money (Martha Washington last graced the one dollar silver certificate in 1896) and it will be the first time an African American is depicted on money issued by the federal government.
The exhibition, "Reclaiming a Lost Generation," consists of 56 self-portraits executed on paper by artists working in Berlin between the wars.
The artist most linked with van Gogh's tragic trajectory, however, is the Viennese painter Richard Gerstl, seen here in two self-portraits, one an ink-on-paper work that borrows from van Gogh's broken, sometimes pointillist stroke.
Highlights of the October sale include a Warhol portrait of Prince Charles, estimated at $70,000 to $90,000; a portrait of Charles I attributed to Paul von Somer, which does not yet have an estimate; and a George Washington portrait in graphite on paper by Roy Lichtenstein, expected to sell for $200,000 to $300,000.
He created brilliant portraits on handmade paper, with handmade pastels, of everyone from Carmen McRae to Walter Winchell, along with several covers.
After realizing the difference was a lifetime spent working with sugar, he used the glittering grains to draw and form the children's portraits on black paper, and photographed the results.
Ms. Smith presented the Best in Show award to Paul Kaiser, an Easton resident, for his hyperrealist self-portrait in graphite on paper.
