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The reworking of an earlier double portrait that Gregory encouraged her to saw in half, (an act that Frances came to regard as presaging the end of their marriage), this portrait shows a suspicious Frances unmollified by the touch of an entreating - and disembodied - hand.

(Frances Cohen Gillespie, The Touch, self-portrait, 1965-89. Private collection. Photo by Susan Byrne.)





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