Marlene Dumas
The Woman of Algiers
2001
Marlene Dumas’s work explores a range of human emotion while reflecting on social and political attitudes toward women, children, people of color, and others who historically have been victimized. The Woman of Algiers’s composition is based on a photograph that appeared in the French newspaper L’Express.
The Woman of Algiers
2001
Marlene Dumas’s work explores a range of human emotion while reflecting on social and political attitudes toward women, children, people of color, and others who historically have been victimized. The Woman of Algiers’s composition is based on a photograph that appeared in the French newspaper L’Express.
Andy Warhol
Self-Portrait in Drag
1981
Andy Warhol enjoyed dressing for parties in drag, sometimes in dresses of his own design. He admired "the boys who spend their lives trying to be complete girls," so in 1981 he and a photographic assistant, Christopher Makos, agreed to collaborate on a session portraying Warhol in drag. In many ways, they modeled the series on Man Ray's 1920s work with the French artist Marcel Duchamp, in which the two artists created a female alter ego name Rrose Sélavy for Duchamp.
Self-Portrait in Drag
1981
Andy Warhol enjoyed dressing for parties in drag, sometimes in dresses of his own design. He admired "the boys who spend their lives trying to be complete girls," so in 1981 he and a photographic assistant, Christopher Makos, agreed to collaborate on a session portraying Warhol in drag. In many ways, they modeled the series on Man Ray's 1920s work with the French artist Marcel Duchamp, in which the two artists created a female alter ego name Rrose Sélavy for Duchamp.
Cindy Sherman
Self-Portrait
1981
Sherman is an American photographer and film director, best known for her conceptual portraits. Through a number of different series of works, Sherman has sought to raise challenging and important questions about the role and representation of women in society, the media and the nature of the creation of art. Her photographs include some of the most expensive photographs ever sold.
Self-Portrait
1981
Sherman is an American photographer and film director, best known for her conceptual portraits. Through a number of different series of works, Sherman has sought to raise challenging and important questions about the role and representation of women in society, the media and the nature of the creation of art. Her photographs include some of the most expensive photographs ever sold.
Veruschka von Lehndorff
1992
Veruschka is a German model, actress, and artist who was popular during the 1960s. Her father was a Prussian count who was involved in a plot to assassinate Hitler in 1944 and hanged that year. Her mother was arrested, and Vera and her sisters spent the rest of the war in Gestapo camps. They were reunited with their mother after the war, but the family was destitute, and ostracised by other Germans for their father's treachery. She ended up studying textile design in Florence, where a fashion designer first asked her to model.
1992
Veruschka is a German model, actress, and artist who was popular during the 1960s. Her father was a Prussian count who was involved in a plot to assassinate Hitler in 1944 and hanged that year. Her mother was arrested, and Vera and her sisters spent the rest of the war in Gestapo camps. They were reunited with their mother after the war, but the family was destitute, and ostracised by other Germans for their father's treachery. She ended up studying textile design in Florence, where a fashion designer first asked her to model.
Albrecht Dürer
Self-Portrait in a Fur-Collared Robe (Self-Portrait at 28)
1500
Self-Portrait (or Self-Portrait at Twenty-Eight Years Old Wearing a Coat with Fur Collar) is a painting on wood panel by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. Painted early in 1500, just before his 29th birthday, it is the last of his three painted self-portraits. It is considered the most personal, iconic and complex of his self-portraits, and the one that has become fixed in the popular imagination
Self-Portrait in a Fur-Collared Robe (Self-Portrait at 28)
1500
Self-Portrait (or Self-Portrait at Twenty-Eight Years Old Wearing a Coat with Fur Collar) is a painting on wood panel by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. Painted early in 1500, just before his 29th birthday, it is the last of his three painted self-portraits. It is considered the most personal, iconic and complex of his self-portraits, and the one that has become fixed in the popular imagination
Leonardo da Vinci
Self-Portrait
1512
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. This portrait is also the only self-portrait known to have been made by the artist. Leonardo da Vinci drew this at about the age of 60. The portrait has been extensively reproduced and has become an iconic representation of Leonardo as a polymath or "Renaissance Man".
Self-Portrait
1512
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. This portrait is also the only self-portrait known to have been made by the artist. Leonardo da Vinci drew this at about the age of 60. The portrait has been extensively reproduced and has become an iconic representation of Leonardo as a polymath or "Renaissance Man".
Joseph Ducreux
Self-Portrait
1793
Ducreux was a French portrait painter, pastelist, miniaturist, and engraver, who was a successful portraitist at the court of Louis XVI of France, and was able to resume his career after the French Revolution. His less formal portraits show an interest in expanding the range of facial expressions beyond those of official portraiture.
Self-Portrait
1793
Ducreux was a French portrait painter, pastelist, miniaturist, and engraver, who was a successful portraitist at the court of Louis XVI of France, and was able to resume his career after the French Revolution. His less formal portraits show an interest in expanding the range of facial expressions beyond those of official portraiture.
Vincent Van Gogh
Self-Portrait
1887
Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist. Van Gogh was a prolific self-portraitist, who painted himself 37 times between 1886 and 1889. The paintings vary in intensity and color and some portray the artist with beard, some beardless, some with bandages – depicting the episode in which he severed a portion of his ear.
Self-Portrait
1887
Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist. Van Gogh was a prolific self-portraitist, who painted himself 37 times between 1886 and 1889. The paintings vary in intensity and color and some portray the artist with beard, some beardless, some with bandages – depicting the episode in which he severed a portion of his ear.