Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Modern Heads in Profile

Julian Opie
Head
2007
screenprint
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

John Bellany
Janus
1982
screenprint
Tate Gallery

Arnulf Rainer
Untitled (Death Mask)
1978
photograph, with added ink
Tate Gallery

Ivor Abrahams
Morella
(series, E.A. Poe: Tales and Poems)
1976
screenprint
Tate Gallery

Mino Maccari
Portrait of Giorgio Morandi
1975
intaglio print
Tate Gallery

Elisabeth Frink
Study of Man's Head
1965
drawing, with watercolor
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Joan Eardley
A Glasgow Boy
ca.1955
oil on board
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Emilio Amero
Woman balancing Water Pot
1940
gelatin silver print
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Arshile Gorky
Untitled (Head)
ca. 1932-34
oil on canvas
Yale University Art Gallery

Roi Partridge
Woman's Head in Profile
1929
etching
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Oskar Schlemmer
Head in Profile
1928
lithograph
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Suzanne Valadon
Head of Maurice Utrillo
1928
lithograph
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Aubrey Beardsley
Headpiece for Malory's Morte d'Arthur
ca. 1893
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

John Singer Sargent
Head of a Young Man
ca. 1890
drawing
Yale University Art Gallery

Robert Hatton Monks
Head of a Girl
1898
oil on canvas
Harvard Art Museums

G.F. Folingsby
Head of a Bearded Man
ca. 1875
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

"Now Juliet lay still and looked at the map of Venice that hung in a frame on the wall opposite their bed. She looked at the intestinal canals all held against each other in a knot. Now, just as the stone walls of Venice endured the dark water that lay between them, and the water endured its confinement in the twisting walls that held it there, and as their eternal involvement was something that had a name, a being, a kind of beauty, so Juliet could endure the coming day."

– Rachel Cusk, from the novel Arlington Park (2006)