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Subject Source: Sackner Database

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Portrait of the artist as a young man (going on sixty): Tom Phillips / Lambirth, Andrew; Phillips T., 1997

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Identifier: CC-29357-30720
Scope and Contents

Lambirth provides a detailed review of the work, current exhibitions, philosophy of Tom Phillips who is described as a "painter, poet, printmaker, collector, composer, curator, sculpture, singer, translator... "At 60, the polymathic Mr Phillips is still just trying to do what he's always done: be an artist as best he can." The essay mentions that "Phillips claims to have only two collectors in the world, one in Miami and one in London. They are his only significant patrons." [The collectors who are not identified in this article are the Sackners in Miami and Massimo Valsecchi in London]. The article reproduces page 50 of A Humument, a self-portrait of Phillips on his 50th birthday, a drawing that is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997