Andrew Wyeth - Braids & The Helga Series

Between 1970 and 1985, American artist Andrew Wyeth made more than 250 drawings and paintings of the same woman.

She was not his wife - nor his child (Wyeth only had two sons) - nor any kind of sibling or close relation.

And in spite of widespread suspicion caused by the intimacy of some of these works, (not to mention the strange secrecy in which they …