John Currin National Portrait Gallery and his distinctive mastery of

and his distinctive mastery of the Polaroid print

the catalogue reproduces the more than seventy exhibited paintings

Exemplifying the interplay of content and form that is a hallmark of the artist’s practice

Cécile Debray

Adorned with Takashi Murakami’s iconic smiling flowers and “Sunshine” written in polychrome letters

John Currin National Portrait Gallery and his distinctive mastery ofThis comprehensive monograph illustrates John Currins work between 1988 and 2006, with approximately four hundred paintings and drawings, many of them previously unpublished, arranged into chronological groupings accompanied by reproductions of notebook sketches and source materials. Using classical techniques to portray highly charged and often taboo subjects, Currin takes inspiration from old master portraits, pornography, and B movies to produce