"Can one think of any reason apart from spiritual kinship," he asks, "for the purchase of this bleak, almost abstract portrait?"

But in one series, the grids serve as support for plumelike explosions of color intended as abstract portraits.

But his "Morgenrot, Mexico," on the order of the abstract portraits he had made in Germany, is strong.

He used it to take a series of abstract portraits of the female form.

The gouache paintings depict abstract portraits of faces and dancers.

She wrote biographical information around the edges of abstract portraits of great women in history.

He has done abstract portraits of fellow rugby players.

In 1989, he made his first abstract portrait with mixed media.

The obverse features an abstract portrait of Nordenskiöld at the helm of his ship.

Sisko studied the admittedly abstract portrait with a frown.