Borchard wrote 'Why cannot we have paintings, also, like Goya’s? Why not the ‘cri de coeur’, also, in what is being painted? This I find in Anthony Whishaw...’ This reference to Goya is apt, Whishaw developing a lifelong love for Spain. He was joyfully overwhelmed first seeing Goya’s ‘Black Paintings’ years ago. As a teenager he reacted with fury to reproductions of Picasso’s work but went on to ‘develop an enormous rapport with Cubist work’. Whishaw’s close-up, semi-profile view of his downward-looking head may indeed be interpreted as a ‘cri de coeur’. It is a heart-rendingly wistful study of a vulnerable human presence, one imbued with a vivid quietness of spirit. Whishaw grew up in South America. Of Spain, he said 'What attracted me to Spain was the brownness, the ruggedness, the sense of hidden drama.