Waiting for the election due next year might create further momentum behind the campaign of Imran Khan, a cricketer-turned-politician who is suddenly wildly popular in quarters viewed by Mr Sharif as his power base.
The formal portraits, among them "Pig Pen (Tattoos)" and "J D," evoke paintings by Hans Holbein, primarily because of their walls of color, but also because the subjects are shown in three-quarters view, with unfocused gazes.
Mrs. Leyland, who was perhaps a lover as well as a patron of the artist, stands full length in three-quarters view from the rear, her hands clasped behind her and her introspective, trusting face in profile.
The head is shown in profile, but the eye in full; the shoulders are frontally represented, while the torso is at three-quarters view; the legs again are in profile.
One early drawing (not in the show, but reproduced in the catalog) shows her from the front, and it's easy to see why Degas quickly switched to the three-quarters view; it more clearly shows Miss La La distributing her weight, bending her knees and extending her arms in opposite directions, so as to take the pressure off her famous jaw.
While most Arcimboldo's portraits show heads in profile, this painting is a three-quarter view.
The Doge is presented to us head-on, the friar in three-quarter view.
He poses his subjects, often angled, in three-quarter view against a solid black backdrop.
After rising high his playoff past, Jamal Mashburn was beginning to fade from fourth-quarter view.
Among the top fliers was a three-quarter view of a man's back from 1910 by Egon Schiele.
