Anna Wintour portrait unveiled

By Anita Singh, Showbusiness Editor Published: 2:03PM GMT twenty-five February 2010

Previous of Images Next Alex Katz, "Anna", 2009, oil on linen, 60x84 Anna Wintour as we are some-more in the habit of to saying her Photo: REUTERS

The painting, by octogenarian US artist Alex Katz, is not just a detailed likeness.

The important bobbed haircut is represented, but bears a clearly ginger tinge. The countenance is rather flat. On the and side, Wintour appears most younger than her 60 years, and this is a singular sighting of her but her signature dim glasses.

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She sat for Katz, 82, at his New York college of music in late 2009, the initial time she has consented to have her mural painted. "I couldn"t think of a nicer approach to outlay the afternoon. We talked for dual hours whilst he worked," removed Wintour, who was the impulse for Meryl Streep"s terrifying editor in The Devil Wears Prada.

Katz asked Wintour to poise but her sunglasses after examination The Sep Issue, the new documentary movie that went at the back of the scenes at Vogue, and seeing that she had "lovely eyes". He said: "Painting Anna was similar to sharpened fish in a barrel. There was no approach I could miss it."

The portrayal will go on arrangement for the initial time in May at London"s National Portrait Gallery, in an muster of Katz"s work.

Sandy Nairne, executive of the NPG, said: "This is a splendidly in vogue mural of a absolute force in the general universe of fashion. Alex Katz captures an hint of Anna Wintour on a grand scale."

And Wintour"s outcome on the portrait? Well, she favourite the yellow. "I was gratified to see that he used a lot of colour, that I adore," she said.

:: Alex Katz Portraits will run from fifteen May twenty-one Sep 2010 at the National Portrait Gallery. Admission free.

:: An muster of new paintings by Alex Katz opens at the Timothy Taylor Gallery in London from 4 Mar - 9 April. Admission free.