London
CNN
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Lucy Jones painted her first nude self-portrait at 50. She was in New York with her husband Peter Leach, she said, when he “took a picture of my backside. I thought, ‘Well I don’t look too bad from the back, so maybe I’ll paint it!’”
Jones is sitting on a wooden chair the middle of a white-washed gallery space, surrounded by a collection of her own works spanning decades for the opening of a new self-portraiture show in London. While the piece in question, “Being 50,” is absent from the exhibition it is striking enough to remember off by heart: an inky black canvas split in two, with Jones’ tilted gait rendered nude in two separate images.
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