A series on artist’s self-portraits. Some are famous as portraitists, others not so much, but very many artists have painted their own portraits over centuries. Some of the more contemporary artists became more experimental with their style of painting as time went on, and it’s interesting to see that development in their own portraits as well.
I decided to run the series in alphabetical order rather than chronological order, to give a more interesting mix of styles through the ages.
This is part 7 of an 8-part series on Artist’s Self Portraits:
Paul Klee (Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland – 1940 Muralto, Switzerland) was
a German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art
that included Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism.
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| Paul Klee 1909 Self-Portrait |
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| Paul Klee 1911 Self-Portrait |
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| Paul Klee 1919 Absorption ( Self-Portrait ) |
Dame Paula Rego, DBE, (1935 Lisbon, Portugal) is a
Portuguese visual artist who is particularly known for her paintings and prints
based on storybooks.
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| Paula Rego 2015 Self-Portrait Triptych pastel on paper 75.3 x 72.2 cm Marlborough Madrid & Barcelona, Spain |
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| Paula Rego Self-Portrait in Red Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal |
Paule Vézelay (1892 Bristol, UK – 1984 London) was a British painter. She
was born Marjorie Watson-Williams in Bristol, a daughter of the pioneering ENT
surgeon, Patrick Watson-Williams.
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| Paule Vézelay ( Self-Portrait ) 1927-29c oil on canvas 65.1 x 54.3 cm © National Portrait Gallery, London |
Sir Peter Thomas Blake, CBE, RDI, RA (1932 Dartford, Kent, UK) is an
English pop artist, best known for co-creating the sleeve design for the
Beatles' album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."
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| Peter Blake 1952-53c Self-Portrait in RAF Jacket Private Collection© Peter Blake 2018 All rights reserved, DACS |
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| Peter Blake 1961 Self-Portrait with Badges oil on board 174.3 x 121.9 cm Tate, London © Peter Blake 2018 All rights reserved, DACS |
Sir Peter Lely (1618 Soest, Germany – 1680 London) was a painter of
Dutch origin, whose career was nearly all spent in England, where he became the
dominant portrait painter to the court.
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| Peter Lely 1684c Self-Portrait mezzotint 33.9 x 25.1 cm de Young / Legion of Honour Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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| Peter Lely Self-Portrait black and coloured chalks heightened with white 38.6 x 31.1 cm
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577 Siegen, Germany – 1640 Antwerp, Belgium) was
a Flemish artist. He is considered the most influential artist of Flemish
Baroque tradition. Rubens' highly charged compositions reference erudite
aspects of classical and Christian history.
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| Peter Paul Rubens 1602-04 Self-Portrait in a Circle of Friends from Mantua oil on canvas 77.5 x 161 cm Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne |
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| Peter Paul Rubens 1609-10 Self-Portrait with first wife Isabella Brant oil on canvas 174 x 143 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Peter Paul Rubens 1620c Self-Portrait oil on panel 41 x 34 cm |
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| Peter Paul Rubens 1628-30 Self-Portrait oil on canvas 64.2 x 48 cm Rubenshuis, Antwerp |
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| Peter Paul Rubens 1633-40 Self-Portrait oil on canvas 110 x 85.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria |
Pierre Bonnard (1867 Fontenay-aux-Roses, France – 1947 Le Cannet,
France) was a French painter and printmaker, as well as a founding member of
the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis.
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| Pierre Bonnard 1889c Self-Portrait tempera on canvas 21.5 x 15.8 cm Private Collection |
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| Pierre Bonnard 1904c Self Portrait oil on canvas Private Collection |
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| Pierre Bonnard 1938-40c Self-Portrait in Dressing Room Mirror oil on canvas 76.2 x 61 cm Art Gallery New South Wales, Australia |
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| Pierre Bonnard 1945 Self-Portrait oil on canvas 56 x 46 cm Private Collection |
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, commonly known as Auguste Renoir, (1841Limoges,
France – 1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer, France) was a French artist who was a leading
painter in the development of the Impressionist style.
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| Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1875c Self-Portrait oil on canvas Clark Institute, Williamstown, MA |
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| Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1876 Self-Portrait oil on canvas 73.3 x 57.3 cm Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA |
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| Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1899 Self-Portrait oil on canvas Clark Institute, Williamstown, MA |
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| Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1910 Self-Portrait oil on canvas 45.7 x 38.1 cm Private Collection |
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| Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1910 Self-Portrait with a White Hat oil on canvas Private Collection |
Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan, after 1906 Mondrian, (1872
Amersfoort, Netherlands – 1944 New York) was a Dutch painter and theoretician
who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
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| Piet Mondrian 1900 Self-Portrait oil on canvas 39.7 x 50.4 cm Philips Collection, Washington, DC |
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| Piet Mondrian 1918 Self-Portrait oil on canvas 88 x 71 cm Gemeentemuseum den Haag, Hague, Netherlands |
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| Piet Mondrian 1942 Self-Portrait Sidney Janis Gallery, New York |
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525 Son en Breugel, Netherlands – 1569
Brussels, Belgium) was the most significant artist of Dutch and Flemish
Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker from Brabant, known for his
landscapes and peasant scenes.
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| Pieter Bruegel the Elder 1565 The Painter and The Connoisseur ( thought to be a self-portrait ) pen and ink on paper 25 x 21.6 cm Albertina, Vienna |
Ronald Brooks Kitaj RA (1932 Chagn Falls, Ohio – 2007 Los Angeles, CA) was
an American artist with Jewish roots who spent much of his life in England.
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| R.B. Kitaj 1993-94 Self-Portrait: Hockney Pillow oil on canvas 101.6 x 50.8 cm National Portrait Gallery, London © estate of R.B. Kitaj / National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| R B Kitaj 2007 Self-Portrait oil paint and charcoal on canvas 30.8 x 30.7 cm Tate, London © The estate of R. B. Kitaj |
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known as Raphael, (1483 Urbino, Italy – 1520
Rome, Italy) was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His
work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual
achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur.
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| Raphael 1505-06 Self-Portrait |
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| Raphael 1506 Self-Portrait ( aged about 23 ) oil on panel 45 x 33 cm Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy |
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| Raphael 1519 Self-Portrait with a Friend oil on canvas 99 x 83 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris |
Rembrandt Harmenszoon
van Rijn (1606 Leiden, Netherlands – 1669 Amsterdam, Netherlands) was a Dutch
draughtsman, painter, and printmaker. An innovative and prolific master in
three media, he is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in
the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history.
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| Rembrandt 1628 Self-Portrait oil on panel 22.6 x 18.7 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Rembrandt 1628-30c Self-Portrait oil on panel 38.2 x 31 cm Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg |
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| Rembrandt 1628c Self-Portrait - Rembrandt Laughing oil on copper 22.2 x 17.1 cm The Getty Centre, Los Angeles CA |
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| Rembrandt 1630 Self-Portrait 15.5 x 12 cm Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden |
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| Rembrandt 1630-35 Self-Portrait oil on wood 22 x 17 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Rembrandt 1634 Self-portrait in a Velvet Beret oil on oak panel 58.3 x 47.4 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
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| Rembrandt 1635c Rembrandt and Saskia in the parable of the Prodigal Son oil on canvas 161 x 131 cm Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Germany |
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| Rembrandt 1636-38c Self-Portrait oil on panel 63.2 x 50.5 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena CA |
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| Rembrandt 1655c Self-Portrait with Beret oil on panel 48 x 40.6 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria |
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| Rembrandt 1659c Self-Portrait ( attributed to ) oil on canvas 68 x 56.5 cm Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart |
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| Rembrandt 1665-69 Self-Portrait with Two Circles oil on canvas 114.3 x 94 cm Kenwood House, London |
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| Rembrandt 1669 Self-Portrait oil on canvas 65.4 x 60.2 cm The Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands |
René François Ghislain Magritte (1898 Lessines, Belgium – 1967
Schaerbeek, Belgium) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for
creating a number of witty and thought-provoking images.
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| René Magritte 1923 Self-Portrait oil on canvas |
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| René Magritte 1936 Clairvoyance ( Self-Portrait) oil on canvas 54.5 x 65.5 cm Private Collection |
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| René Magritte 1952 The Magician ( Self-Portrait ) oil on canvas 34 x 45 cm Private Collection |
Reginald John "Rex" Whistler (1905 London – 1944 Caen, France)
was a British artist, designer and illustrator.
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| Rex Whistler 1924 Self-Portrait oil on canvas |
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| Rex Whistler 1933c Self-Portrait oil on canvas 40.6 x 36.8 cm Tate, London |
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| Rex Whistler 1934 Self-Portrait oil on canvas 37 x 26 cm |
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