Water Painting, Household paint on aluminium panel, 1999, Gary Hume

Thinking about a forthcoming rare (and, as yet, unclaimed) opportunity to see the work of one of my favourite artists - the inimitably base and unpretentiously, unashamedly subversive Egon Schiele - at the Royal Academy’s Treasures of Budapest exhibition has ignited an uncommon display of post-weekend, mid-hangover synapse firing and recalled the memory of this referential painting by Gary Hume, an artist whose mid-90s heyday and reductive, liquid works have nothing in common with the tenderly raw, expressively sexual portraits Schiele is famed for.