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 6 of an 8-part series on Artist’s Self Portraits:
Mark Gertler, born Marks Gertler, (1891 London – 1939 London) was a
British painter of figure subjects, portraits and still-life. His early life
and his relationship with Dora Carrington were the inspiration for Gilbert
Cannan's novel Mendel.
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| Mark Gertler 1908-09c Self Portrait with Fishing Cap oil on canvas 60.9 x 50.8 cm © National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Mark Gertler 1920 Self Portrait oil on canvas 42.5 x 29.2 cm |
Mark Rothko, born Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz, (1903 Daugavpils,
Latvia – 1970 New York) was an American painter of Russian Jewish descent.
Although Rothko himself refused to adhere to any art movement, he is generally
identified as an abstract expressionist.
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| Mark Rothko 1936 Self-Portrait oil on canvas 81.9 x 65.4 cm Private Collection © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko-DACS 2018 |
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (1844 Allegheny, Pittsburgh, PA – 1926 Paris,
France) was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Pennsylvania,
but lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar
Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists.
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| Mary Cassatt 1878 Portrait of the Artist ( Self-Portrait ) watercolour and gouache on wove paper laid down on buff coloured wood-pulp paper 60 x 41.1 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Mary Cassatt 1880c Self-Portrait gouache and watercolour over graphite on paper 32.7 x 2.6 cm Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC |
Maurice Denis (1870 Granville, France – 1943 Paris, France) was a French
painter, decorative artist and writer, who was an important figure in the
transitional period between impressionism and modern art.
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| Maurice Denis 1889 Portrait of the Artist Aged Eighteen ( Self-Portrait ) oil on canvas 33 x 25 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Maurice Denis 1916 Self-Portrait oil on canvas 68 x 80 cm Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy |
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| Maurice Denis 1919 Self-Portrait oil on board Musée Fabre, Montpelier, France |
Max Ernst (1891 Brühl, Germany – 1976 Paris, France) was a German
painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a
primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism.
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| Max Ernst 1909 Self-Portrait oil on canvas 60 x 90 cm Private Collection |
Max Liebermann (1847 Berlin, Germany – 1935 Berlin, Germany) was a
German-Jewish painter and printmaker, and one of the leading proponents of
Impressionism in Germany.
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| Max Liebermann 1911 Self-Portrait oil on canvas 81 x 65 cm Private Collection |
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| Max Liebermann 1916 Self-Portrait oil on canvas 112 x 92 cm Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany |
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| Max Liebermann 1922 Self-Portrait oil on canvas 90 x 75.3 cm |
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| Max Liebermann 1922 Self-Portrait |
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| Max Liebermann 1934 Self-Portrait oil on canvas 92.1 x 73.3 cm Tate, London |
Nicholas Hilliard (1547 London – 1619 London) was an English goldsmith
and limner best known for his portrait miniatures of members of the courts of
Elizabeth I and James I of England.
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| Nicholas Hilliard 1577 Self-Portrait Miniature watercolour on vellum laid down on card Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (1891 Gera, Germany – 1969 Singen, Germany) was
a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic
depictions of Weimar society and the brutality of war.
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| Otto Dix 1912 Self-Portrait with Carnation oil on paper 73 x 50 cm Detroit Institute of the Arts, MI |
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| Otto Dix 1912 Self-Portrait |
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| Otto Dix 1913 Self-Portrait |
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| Otto Dix 1922 Self-Portrait pencil and watercolour on paper 49.2 x 39.3 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn |
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| Otto Dix 1926 Self-Portrait by the Easel with Model charcoal and chalk on paper 100 x 69.5 cm |
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| Otto Dix 1926 Self-Portrait with Easel |
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| Otto Dix 1931 Self-Portrait oil on canvas 100 x 80 cm Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne |
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| Otto Dix 1942 Self-Portrait with Palette mixed media on wood 100 x 80 cm Staatsgaleire Stuttgart, Germany |
Pablo Picasso (1881
Málaga, Spain – 1973 Mougins, France) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker,
ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult
life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th
century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement.
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| Pablo Picasso 1896 Self-Portrait ( aged 15 ) oil on canvas 32.7 x 23.6 cm Museu Picaso, Barcelona, Spain |
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| Pablo Picasso 1901 Self-Portrait ( aged 20 ) oil on canvas 81 x 60 cm Musée Picasso, Paris |
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| Pablo Picasso 1906 Self-Portrait ( aged 25 ) oil on canvas 39 x 30 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| Pablo Picasso 1907 Self-Portrait ( aged 25 ) oil on canvas 50 x 46 cm |
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| Pablo Picasso 1972 Self-Portrait Facing Death ( aged 90 ) pencil and crayon on paper 65.7 x 50.5 cm Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo |
Parmigianino ( Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola ) (1503 Parma, Italy –
1540 Casalmaggiore, Italy) was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker
active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma.
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| Parmigianino 1523-24c Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror oil on wood panel 24.4 cm diameter Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria |
Patrick Heron (1920 Leeds, UK – 1999 Zennor, UK) was a British abstract
and figurative artist, who lived in Zennor, Cornwall.
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| Patrick Heron 1951 Self-Portrait oil on canvas 50.8 x 40.6 cm National Portrait Gallery, London |
Paul Cézanne (1839 Aix-en-Provence, France – 1906 Aix-en-Provence,
France) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the
foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour
to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.
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| Paul Cézanne 1873-75c Self-Portrait in a Casquette oil on canvas 55 x 38 cm Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia |
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| Paul Cézanne 1875c Self-Portrait oil on canvas 64 x 53 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Paul Cézanne 1875c Self-Portrait with Rose Background oil on canvas 66 x 55 cm Private Collection |
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| Paul Cézanne 1880 Self-Portrait oil on canvas 61 x 47 cm Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, DC |
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| Paul Cézanne 1880c Self-Portrait oil on canvas 34.7 x 27 cm The National Gallery, London |
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| Paul Cézanne 1883-87 Self-Portrait oil on canvas 44 x 36 cm Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen |
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| Paul Cézanne 1890c Self-Portrait oil on canvas 92 x 73 cm E.G. Bührle Foundation, Zürich, Switzerland |
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| Paul Cézanne 1895c Self-Portrait oil on canvas 55 x 46 cm Private Collection |
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (1848 Paris, France – 1903 Atuona, French
Polynesia) was a French post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after
his death, Gauguin is now recognised for his experimental use of colour and
Synthetist style that were distinctly different from Impressionism.
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| Paul Gauguin 1885 Self-Portrait oil on canvas 65.2 x 54.3 cm Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Paul Gauguin 1888 Self-Portrait at Lezaven oil on canvas 40.5 x 32.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Paul Gauguin 1888 Self-Portrait, Les Miserables oil on canvas 45 x 55 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam |
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| Paul Gauguin 1889 Self-Portrait with Halo oil on wood panel 79 x 51 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Paul Gauguin 1890 Self-Portrait with the Yellow Christ oil on canvas 30 x 46 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Paul Gauguin 1890-99 Self-Portrait oil on canvas The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow |
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| Paul Gauguin 1893c Self-Portrait in a Hat oil on canvas 48 x 36 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Paul Gauguin 1893c Self-Portrait ( Portrait of the Artist with the Idol ) oil on canvas McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas |
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| Paul Gauguin 1894c Self-Portrait with Palette oil on canvas 92 x 73 cm Private Collection |
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| Paul Gauguin 1896 Self-Portrait oil on canvas 40.5 x 32 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Paul Gauguin 1903 Self-Portrait with Spectacles oil on canvas laid down on wood Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland |
