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Frederick Carl Frieseke (American, 1874–1939) • Self-Portrait • By 1938

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Èlisabeth Chaplin (French, 1890 - 1982) • Two Nudes or Double Self-portrait • 1918

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Francis Picabia (French, 1879 - 1953) • Self-Portrait • c. 1940

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901) • Auto-portrait devant un miroir (Self-Portrait in a Mirror) • 1882 • Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi, France

“I have tried to do what is true and not ideal."

― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

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Herbert Ashwin Budd (British/English, 1881 - 1950) • Self portrait in the Mirror • Unknown date; likely 20th century

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Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746–1828 ) • Self-Portrait in the Workshop • 1790-95 • Museo de la Real Academia de San Fernando, Madrid, Spain

In this remarkable self-portrait that he painted in the early 1790s, Goya is at work on a large upright canvas, presumably a portrait, his eyes turned away from it towards his subject, which contemporary viewers might well have recognized as themselves. Bright sunshine floods from a large window behind the painter, and he wears a curious hat with candle holders on the brim.It was undoubtedly as a portrait painter that Goya won fame and advancement and the special praise of Carderera, who observed his 'astonishing facility for portrait painting. He customarily painted portraits in a single session and these were the most life-like.' To this Goya's son added a detail that explains the unusual hat, with metal candlesticks around the crown, that he wears in the self-portrait in his studio: 'He painted only in one session, sometimes of ten hours, but never in the late afternoon. The last touches for the better effect of a picture he gave at night, by artificial light.' Goya's biographer, Matheron, also commented on this practice: 'He was so jealous of the effect that - like our Girodet who painted at night, his head crowned with candles - he gave the last touches to his canvases by candlelight.'

– Web Gallery of Art

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Black History Month

Faith Ringgold (American, 1930–2024) • Self-Portrait • 1965 • Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York

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Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917 - 2000) • Self-Portrait • 1947

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Gabriele Münter (German, 1877 - 1962) • Self-Portrait • 1909-10 • Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain

In 1957, shortly before she turned 80, Gabriele Münter recalled painting a landscape half a century earlier. In 1908, while in the countryside of southern Germany, Münter came across an evening sight that caught her eye: a road and an inn backed by blue mountains and red clouds. “I quickly sketched the picture that presented itself to me,” she wrote. “Then it was like I woke up & had the sensation as if I were a bird that had sung its song. I didn’t tell anyone about this sensation, I am not a very talkative person anyway. But I kept the memory for myself.” – Museum of Modern Art

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Maurice de Vlaminc (French, 1876 - 1958) Self-Portrait • 1958

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Polly Thayer (American, 1904 - 2006) • Self Portrait • 1943

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Karel Willink (Dutch, 1900 - 1983) • Self-Portrait with Wilma van der Meulen • 1934

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Kay Sage (American, 1898 - 1963) • Self-Portrait • 1960

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Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872 - 1944) • Self-Portrait • 1917 • Gemeentemuseum den Haag, Hague, Netherlands

Mondrian used the word spiritual to refer to the underlying equilibrium that connects all beings. The prolific body of Piet Mondrian artwork we can look back on today tells the story of an artist who underwent an aesthetic evolution, from objective, figurative representation to pure abstraction. By tracing that evolution through its various stages, we can follow Mondrian along his personal philosophical and artistic journey, through which he sought to understand the universal essence of humanity and to perfectly express it through abstract art.

— IdeelArt.com

Woods near Oele • 1908 | Composition • 1928

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John Koch (American, 1909 - 1978) • Studio—End of Day • 1961 • Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

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Louise Jopling (British/English,1843–1933) • Self-Portrait • 1877

Louise Jopling was a leading female portrait painter of Victorian England. She was excellent at networking and hosted salons that promoted women artists. She also started an art school for women, who were excluded from major art schools and academies.

She was part of a social circle that included James McNeill Whistler, Oscar Wilde, and Kate Perugini (née Dickens).

Like several other women painters, Jopling also served as a model and subject for other artists. Both Millais and James Abbott McNeill Whistler painted portraits of her. Whistler offered praise of Millais' portrait of Jopling as "a great work" and "a superb portrait."

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Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577 - 1640)  • Self-Portrait with His First Wife Isabella Brant in the Honeysuckle Bower • 1609