Yan Pei-Ming has always painted the faces through which history is made and remembered. Mao and Bruce Lee, figures of his Shanghai youth, sit next to popes and today's heads of state. Dictators and victims taken from the news share space with skulls and tigers. Power and death, the public and the intimate, run through the work in equal measure. The history of painting belongs to the same conversation. Leonardo's Mona Lisa became Les Funérailles de Monna Lisa , shown at the Louvre in 2009.