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By the end of 1986, the only act making money on this label was Lauper.{{citation needed|date=November 2012}} Her album ''[[True Colors (Cyndi Lauper album)|True Colors]]'' went [[Music recording sales certification|platinum]], but it wasn't enough to keep the label afloat. At the end of 1986, Portrait was shuttered again.
In 1988, the label re-emerged once more but as a contemporary [[jazz]] outfit, with signings as diverse as [[Stanley Clarke]], [[Ornette Coleman]], Prime Time and Japanese import [[T-Square (band)|T-Square]]. The logo changed dramatically. This time the label had two: the primary one was a painted P with the word "portrait" in a red block, while the secondary one was an outline drawing of a woman. This one was gone by 1990.
Epic did try to make the label work two more times: in 1988, it was trying to do jazz collections, and, in 1999, it was relaunched through [[Columbia Records]] as a hard-rock/metal label, signing [[Ratt]], [[Cinderella (band)|Cinderella]], [[Great White]], [[the Union Underground]], and [[Mars Electric]]. In 2000, [[Iron Maiden]] signed with Portrait in conjunction with [[Columbia Records]] in the US. Finally, after trying so hard to keep it afloat, Portrait dissolved in 2002 after the US release of Iron Maiden's ''[[Rock in Rio (album)|Rock in Rio]]'' album.
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