Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Three Royal Court Theatre Directors (Katie Mitchell; Stephen Daldry; Ian Rickson) NPG 6668

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Justin Mortimer

Drawing on diverse influences from Degas and Sickert to Richter and Tuymans, Mortimer used a photography session, in which he directed the three sitters in a Royal Court rehearsal room, as the starting point for this portrait. According to Mortimer 'the painting forces the figures to exist in a theatrical space with a hidden narrative'. The artist Neo Rausch has described the 'strange perfume' emanating from Mortimer's paintings and this can be seen here in the play between the artist's obvious delight in the painted... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.