Artists self portraits

View Autoportrait (1909) By de‏ Monfreid Georges-Daniel; Oil on paper mounted on canvas; 61 x 47 cm; Signed; . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.

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BOSTON - Without a whole lot of anagrammatical labor, "modern master," which is a term most people in the art game apply to Lucian Freud, becomes "monster dream," which might well describe - to some, anyway - both the artist and his art. Freud might actually like that. Lucian Freud's biography makes bad boy Paul Gauguin - whose life and work I just dove into in these pages - look like a choirboy. A choirboy in a dark religion, admittedly, but still . . .

7 paintings you must see from Lucian Freud's first retrospective at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

Drew self portraits as if Egon Schiele had drawn me👀

"Self Portrait" 1894-95, drawing on paper Ellen Thesleff (1869 – 1954 Finnish) Ateneum / the art collection of the Finnish Government

I found this great image online. you could just sense the paints thickness, he preached to let the paint retain the tracks of the brush. i have a little suspicion that as much as he squinted he would also blurred his vision with eyes wide open in order to eliminate the number of planes and detail, in order to see color mass and color variations. This is why i think he was among the greatest to capture flesh tones because he then was more able to see color by itself instead of color as the…

[Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts - Oil on canvas, 41 x 33 cm]