Breakfast at Sotheby's

Author:Philip Hook [HOOK, PHILIP]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ART000000; ART006000; ART006010; ART043000; ART009000
ISBN: 9781468310306
Publisher: The Overlook Press
Published: 2014-10-01T16:00:00+00:00

‘Oh! I see a likeness coming!’: Portrait of a Lady by John Hoppner, oil on canvas, 1789

Giovanni Boldini, Portrait of a Lady, oil on canvas, 1913: probably executed in the intervals between the artist’s amorous pursuit of the sitter around the studio

The portraits painted by modernist artists are less concerned with flattery and creating a moneyed look than with formal experimentation and psychological penetration. And there is one category of portraiture where psychological penetration has always been most prized: that is the artist’s self-portrait. The market values particularly highly the self-analysis and revelation that goes into an artist’s painted reportage of himself. This is the painter stripped down to his own essentials. This is his self-memorial. The commercial assumption, generally justified, is that the artist is his own most demanding sitter.

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