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- PEOPLE, Page 103Life After Helga
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- By SOPHFRONIA SCOTT/Reported by Georgia Harbison
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- His paintings of a demure (and mostly naked) woman named
- Helga stirred up a sensation when they were uncovered in 1986,
- so what does ANDREW WYETH do for an encore? In the December
- Connoisseur, the artist shows off for the first time the major
- works he has painted since 1985 and discusses his
- experimentation with light. Although Helga remains a subject
- ("She still comes to the studio. It's all a continuous process
- with me"), Wyeth has moved on to other models and new
- countryside motifs. Most striking is Winter Carnival, in which
- his friend Ann Call is painted in a Venetian mask. Surprised
- at how well the mask suited her, Wyeth said, "Ann, that looks
- more like you than you yourself." Makes you wonder what Ann
- really looks like.
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