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In Christina with Yellow Shoes, revisiting the photographic source material referenced in previous paintings, Christina with Dutch Door (2015) and Christina in Red Hat and Christina in Red Hat #2 (both 2014), Patterson has used the same image of his wife to explore articulations of composition, scale and now color balance - this latest version being rendered in gray-scale. Jutting up against the portrait of Christina is an image of the influential conductor and musician Frans Brüggen, seated and playing the recorder. The inclusion of the Brüggen in his formal attire conjures parallels with …