The biggest thing is, the people are nice. They remind me of the mid-west, they’re mud-kickers, not farmers — mud-kickers. They understand hard work. I’m a mud-kicker.

On his head du Chatelet wore an abacot, or cap of state, looped at one side with a jewelled button.

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton fought up from the back of the grid to eighth, with team-mate Jenson Button taking ninth.

Both their standing as artists and their access to the funding they need to produce their work depend on their maintaining credibility with the curatoriat.