These portraits, several of which are in the show, provoke the persistent question: if his sitters can't stay awake for the painter, why should we?

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"It's terrible business ethics to be lying and then just get people to sign a contract, especially if English isn't their first language, " says Richard Painter, professor of corporate law at the University of Minnesota.

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You don't have to be much of a Freudian to guess that the source of both the painter's inspiration and his torment was his mother, a brainy, artistic but thwarted suburban housewife undone by her alcoholism.

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