‘Funerary Portraits For Paintings’

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Portrait of a young woman with a gilded wreath, c. AD 120-140, encaustic, wood, gold leaf, metmuseum.org
Someone just emailed me after seeing the show at SPRING/BREAK and called the Destroyed Richters “funerary portraits for paintings,” and right now I’m just trying to breathe through it.
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Destroyed Richter Painting No. 013, 2016, oil on canvas, installed at Chop Shop