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He has often made distorted self-portraits and portraits of his own wife. Portraits of horses, and of large- headed babies were other favorite motifs. His dark style was particularly inspired by Rembrandt van Rijn. Painting was a way for him to work with his own psyche, with frequent bouts of depression and mania.
Three Studies for a Self-Portrait, 1979–80, 37.5 x 31.8cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Three Studies for a Self-Portrait is an oil-on-canvas triptych painting by the Irish-born English artist Francis Bacon. Two of paintings are signed and dated 1979, and the third signed and dated 1979–1980.
The last self portrait that Utermohlen used a mirror for, [95] Self Portrait (With Easel) (1998) uses the same pose as a 1955 self-portrait. Polini states that this was his desire to "experience again the old motions of painting". [96] Erased Self Portrait (1999) [e] was his last self-portrait using a paint brush. [98]
Place of creation: France : Object history: Mme Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, the artist's sister in law, Amsterdam; sold through Frankfurter Kunstverein to Leonhard Tietz (died 1914), Cologne, in February 1912 [see records in van Gogh-Bonger's account book: "19/2 2-1912 'Kunstverein Frankfurt portret' 2942.50 [guilders]" and "95/15 2-1912 'ontvangen uit Frankfort Kunstverein voor portret' 2942.50 ...
Self-portraiture, or Autoportraiture is the field of art theory and history that studies the history, means of production, circulation, reception, forms, and meanings of self-portraits. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Emerging in Antiquity and becoming popular from the Renaissance as an artistic practice, as a specific field of study, self-portraiture is ...
Open at the Albuquerque Art Museum beginning Saturday, June 12, "Eye to I: Self-Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery" gathers more than 50 works examining the ways American artists have ...
Self-Portrait is a 1685 painting by the German-born British artist Sir Godfrey Kneller. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A self-portrait , it shows the artist in his late 30s. Kneller had moved to England in 1676 around a decade earlier and had soon secured patronage from the ruling House of Stuart .
The first known self-portrait was made in 1839 -- and with the introduction of social media, the art of the selfie has changed drastically.