Dear Garth
Thank-you for your appreciation. I am very glad to hear from you. Your portrait,
Apotheoun (Tom at Eleven), is simply top-class. It's actually painful to drag my eyes away from it. Truly! Like Balthus' painting of girl's knees (
I've attached two images of Balthus' work below. They are of his next-door-neighbour model, Therese), and Dali, and Velasquez.
Thomasin
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