[Exhibition catalogue:] The Portrait Now.
Gibson (Robin)
Publication details: National Portrait Gallery (NPG), [1993,]
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Signed on the title-page by the show's eminent curator, Robin Gibson, along with featured sculptor Glenys Barton, and fashion designer Jean Muir - the subject of Barton's ceramic portrait within the exhibition (also used on the cover).An important exhibition, covering a decade of portraiture - principally in painting and sculpture, but also including video - artists featured include Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Peter Blake, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Lucian Freud, Maggi Hambling, Richard Hamilton, Howard Hodgkin, David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj, Jeff Koons, Leon Kossoff, Nam June Paik, Eduardo Paolozzi, Tom Phillips, Julian Schnabel, and Andy Warhol.