241:, Mazur cited the increasingly "formula" creation of album covers which started during the late 1980s as the reason that he started painting. In the mid 1990s, he created a painting of a model with a cigar in her hand — a suggested addition by a friend — that was purchased by Saudi Arabian Prince Mohammed Al-sudairy before the paint had dried. When
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