When It Rains It Pours ARTIST: Tamara de Lempicka TITLE: "Portrait of Madame M".
They have retained the title "Portrait of a Man," but in the exhibition catalog and on the wall labels they point to clues like a stray line on the left side of the canvas.
Or an open-work Xhosa beaded vest or even a human figure, a reading encouraged by the title, "Portrait of Willie," and by a tuft of dreadlocks sprouting from the top The artist was John Outterbridge, 76, who lives in Los Angeles.
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Titled "Portrait and Landscape," it is both a film and a performance project, shot in various architecturally distinct locations and displayed, for now, via YouTube on a Whitney-supported blog (colingee.wordpress.com/) that Mr. Gee describes as his studio page.
Titled "Portrait," the project identifies faces from every 24 frames of a movie, compiling them together in one final image that represents the average of all found faces.
Titled "Portrait 5, Stephen(s)" and featuring the host in front of other portraits from past seasons (the number in the title refers to the Colberts visible in this Colbert fractal), it was a canny choice to kick off the sale, which is designed to woo a young, trendy collector class with relatively affordable works by emerging artists.
Mr. Clem gives the title "Self Portrait" to a film still of the transvestite killer from the film "Silence of the Lambs".
Tyson Reeder's colorfully blurred painting of scattered dirty clothes suggests nocturnal abandon; Peter Coffin's even blurrier atmospheric abstraction is explained, but not really justified, by its title: "Aura Portrait".
Ignore the new agey title: this portrait of radiantly heroic Chicago social worker Brenda Myers-Powell, a former sex worker acting as guardian angel to those still on the streets, takes a long, hard, ground-level look at social structures in which abuse and prejudice have become self-regenerating.
Complete with running water, it is a fountain, like Duchamp's, and even borrows its title, "Self-Portrait as a Fountain," from Bruce Nauman's hommage to Duchamp.
