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This artist described eating caviar for breakfast daily and going against Cézanne by painting people “ruined by the rat race” in an interview with Johnny Carson. Kenneth Doolittle burned hundreds of paintings by this “collector of souls,” damaging one of them that shows a crazy-looking Joe Gould with three penises. The bold blue outlines and unfinished backgrounds of this artist’s late-career portraits are shown in the Met’s 2021 exhibition “People Come First,” which traces this artist’s career in Spanish Harlem and the Upper West Side. This artist depicted a scarred torso and protective corset in a 1970 portrait of a shirtless Andy Warhol, (-5[2])and painted a nude self-portrait at 80 years old in which (-5[1])she sits in a striped blue chair. (10[1])For 10 points, (-5[1])name this New York artist known for (10[1])expressionistic (-5[1])portraits like Margaret Evans Pregnant. ■END■ (10[4]0[15])

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