For the series of paintings at Gagosian, he overlaid old publicity stills from the 1940s and '50s with silk-screened images suchas a bolt, banana or lemon.
Such is Frankel's dominance in his own sport that the comparisons tend to be made with athletes from outside of his own species, suchas 0.49-furlong runner Usain Bolt, record-breaking swimmer Michael Phelps or the hitherto-peerless Mohammed Ali.
There are also things which are simply not amenable to such: no one at all is going to say that any and all of us can run as fast as Usain Bolt if only we trained properly from an early age.