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The Portrait had its North American premiere at the 2023 San Diego Film Festival on 20 October. [5] The film's European premiere took place at Raindance Film Festival on 31 October 2023, where it was nominated for Best UK Feature. [3] [6] The film was released in the United States on VOD and digital platforms by Saban Films on 8 December 2023.
The Portrait may refer to: The Portrait, a 1935 painting by René Magritte "The Portrait" (short story), an 1835 short story by Nikolai Gogol The Portrait, a 1983 opera composed by Mieczysław Weinberg based on the short story "The Portrait" (song), a song by The Damned on their 1986 album Anything; The Portrait
"The Portrait" is the story of a young and penniless artist, Tchartkoff, who stumbles upon a terrifyingly lifelike portrait in an art shop and is compelled to buy it. The painting is magical and offers him a dilemma — to struggle to make his own way in the world on the basis of his own talents or to accept the assistance of the magic painting to guaranteed riches and fame.
The Portrait is an oil on canvas painting by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte, from 1935. It depicts an almost photo-realistic table setting with a slice of ham in the center, with an eye staring back at the viewer from the center of the ham. This painting was once part of the private collection of the surrealist painter Kay Sage.
An example is Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall (2009) which, while acknowledging the work of the historian Mary Robertson for background information, imagines an intimate portrait of Thomas Cromwell and his intense relationship with Henry VIII at a critical time in English history. It could be argued that in literature any portrait is a discreet ...
The Portrait (Russian: Портрет, Portret) is an opera in eight scenes composed by Mieczysław Weinberg to a libretto by Alexander Medvedev [Wikidata] based on Nikolai Gogol's short story The Portrait.
Ang Larawan, internationally released as The Portrait, is a 2017 Philippine musical film directed by Loy Arcenas. Based on the 1997 stage play, Larawan which in turn was based on the 1950 literary play A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino by National Artist Nick Joaquin , the film takes place in 1941 just before World War II in a mansion in Manila.
Thomas Gainsborough RA FRSA (/ ˈ ɡ eɪ n z b ər ə /; 14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, [1] he is considered one of the most important British artists of the second half of the 18th century. [2]