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True, a great work takes up the question of its origins

and lets it drop. But this is no great work. This is a sketch

sold on the strength of its signature, a sketch

executed without a trial. Inappropriately formal,

this late work reflects an inability to swallow. Once

my name suggested female bathers

rendered in bright impasto.

Now it is dismissed as “unpronounceable.”

Polemical, depressed, these contiguous black planes