He had been greatly influenced by the orient as far as the preference for the subject matter of his paintings went. Every portrait featured the subject wearing a turban or similar headdress, and all the clothing was white.
So it was with some surprise that he entered a painting in the most highly regarded juried exhibition of the year that featured an abstract representation of the German Field Marshall Rommel as a manager of a small pub in Hertfordshire.
Needless to say, it won the Turner prize in a walk.
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