Stephen Tompkins
Badbloodblackblood
Ink & Acrylic on Illustration Board
11.5 x 11.5 in.
2011
Henry Moore
by Henry Moore
Oil on canvas laid on board
23 in. x 19 1/8 in. (585 mm x 487 mm)
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This is a rare and otherwise undocumented self-portrait by a painter known for vivid seascapes, in which he presents himself in the character of vagabond artist or perhaps muleteer. It was presumably executed in Moore’s youth, before he acquired the thick dark beard seen in photographs, and possibly during or after his visits to France and Switzerland in the mid-1850s. Only the features are carefully worked, the hat, ear and even hand being loosely sketched. The surface is damaged and abraded in small areas. Virtually nothing is known of the two men named as previous owners, and the circumstances of its accession are obscure.
National Portrait Gallery, London
(Source: welovepaintings)
Gertude Stein by Picasso
it’s cool because apparently he did this from memory after fucking up something like 80 previous attempts with her sitting in his studio
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