Friday, January 17, 2020

Painted Self Portraits - Twentieth Century

Gwen John
Self Portrait
ca. 1900
oil on canvas
National Portrait Gallery, London

Glyn Philpot
Self Portrait
1908
oil on canvas
National Portrait Gallery, London

Henry Lamb
Self Portrait
1914
oil on panel
National Portrait Gallery, London

Isaac Rosenberg
Self Portrait
1915
oil on panel
National Portrait Gallery, London

Richard Carline
Self Portrait in Uniform
1918
oil on canvas
Imperial War Museum, London

David Bomberg
Self Portrait
1930
oil on canvas
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich

Carel Weight
Self Portrait
1930
oil on canvas
National Portrait Gallery, London

The Only Museum

by this point you must be hungry
for God not the real thing only
flecks of gold paint the marble bust
of a half-bull half-man

today I took a visit to the only
museum and every last gallery was
packed with snow I mean this
literally the whole place

frozen I didn't stay long
I was worried about melting
the art I touched my eyes lightly
to each flake and when I left

the museum I believed a bit more
in God the strangest thing was
I never shivered I knew love
the whole time

– Ben Purkert (2019)

Anna Zinkeisen
Self Portrait
ca. 1944
oil on canvas
National Portrait Gallery, London

Tomás Harris
Self Portrait
1959
oil on canvas
Courtauld Gallery, London

Dorothy Mead
Self Portrait
1959
acrylic on canvas
London South Bank University

Allen Jones
Self Portrait
1959
oil on canvas
National Portrait Gallery, London

Francis Bacon
Study for a Self Portrait
1963
oil on canvas
National Museum Cardiff, Wales

Michael Kidd
Self Portrait
1977
oil on canvas
Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow

Peter Coker
Self Portrait (In Studio Mirror)
1988
oil on canvas
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Brian McLaughlin
Self Portrait
1992
oil on board
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland