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Controversial: Paramedics surround car in Vine's picture

Diana crash painting goes on display

Anna Davis, Evening Standard
16 Jul 2007


This previously unseen painting of Princess Diana's fatal car crash is the latest controversial work from artist Stella Vine.

The canvas, showing paramedics surrounding the mangled wreckage of Diana's car - with the words from Chris De Burgh's hit Lady In Red written over the top - goes on display tomorrow, nearly 10 years after the fatal Paris crash.

It is part of a series of scenes from Diana's life, including pictures of her early childhood as well as a new painting of Diana with Princes Charles, Harry and William during a family picnic, which will be shown at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford.

Describing the collection, Vine said: "I have always been drawn to the beauty and the tragedy of Diana's life which I hope I've captured in this new series of paintings.

"I wanted to show her vulnerability as well as her strength, and the close relationship she had with her sons." Former stripper Vine, who lives in Bloomsbury, made headlines in 2004 when Charles Saatchi bought her painting of a crying Princess Diana on the phone to her butler Paul Burrell, titled Hi Paul, Can You Come Over.... It will also be included in the exhibition, along with a portrait of heroin victim Rachel Whitear bought by Saatchi in the same year.

A portrait of missing musician Richey James from the Manic Street Preachers will be on display, as well as a painting of Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho with his dog Leya, and another of poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.

Her paintings have been described as the "visual equivalent of tabloid journalism".

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