We humans have been gazing at our reflections for eternity. Fascinated by our own visage we have sought to preserve it in sculpture, painting, photography, video. Our portraits are as individual as ...
Brenda Goodman, "Self-Portrait 4" (1994), oil on panel, 64 x 60 inches (all images © Brenda Goodman, courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York) Brenda Goodman has ...
Drawing from the National Portrait Gallery’s vast collection of self-portraits, this exhibition explores and thinks critically about how American artists have chosen to portray themselves over the ...
One of the first images in the Royal Academy’s splendid exhibition is an ink drawing made in 1949 for a book on Greek myths. Freud casts himself as Actaeon who, according to the myth, accidentally ...
Lucian Freud, “Man with a Feather” (1943), oil on canvas, 76.2 x 50.8 cm (private collection, © the Lucian Freud Archive / Bridgeman Images, all images courtesy ...
“Every painting is a self-portrait,” the late Boston artist Ralph Hamilton used to say. But some paintings — and drawings and photographs — really are portraits of the artist who made them. Boston’s ...
"Hotel Bedroom" (1954) by Lucian Freud, oil on canvas. Collection of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. Enveloped in crumpled white sheets, Lady Caroline Hamilton Temple Blackwood looks anything but ...