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Cooke told me that when he first encountered your work, "for some reason, I liked the idea - or I thought it would please Sam - for the person in the painting to own the painting. Just listen to what Michael had to say about the first painting he bought from you, a still of Julianne Moore in Magnolia, the Paul Thomas Anderson movie. Cooke o/=ered Cam'ron your painting of Cam'ron, he said, "and Cam'ron was like, Yeah, I'm not into art." (You told me that you really appreciated that: "Why should he like it?") "We collect contemporary art, we collect modern art, we collect Chinese furniture, African antiquities, Rembrandt etchings, Japanese bronze flower vases", Michael told me. [Extracted from the article] |
