“... are from 1993-94 – a late period as extraordinary, in its own quiet stone-butch way, as that of Titian, Milton or Yeats. You’d call it a flowering except there aren’t any flowers; just the same old pencil lines and stripes. But the lines and stripes have become positively floral in their glow and poise and breeziness. Most of the pictures are pink and ...”

“... put Theseus’ sail on the horizon: its movement counterpoints her prone position on the beach. In Titian she is surrounded by male movement, visited by a new male as the old one goes: Dionysus, all motion, swirl and leopards. Woman is good, Ovid says, at hiding desire in stillness and self-veiling. In the Ariadne story, the woman helps the man by tethering ...”