Right before his 70th birthday in 1992, Lucian Freud said, “Now the very least I can do is to paint myself naked.” Although he was alluding to artistic compensation for all the unflattering nudes he’d ...

Walk into any major museum and you’re surrounded by masterpieces that generations of art lovers have studied and admired.

Drawing from the National Portrait Gallery’s vast collection of self-portraits, this exhibition explores and thinks critically about how American artists have chosen to portray themselves over the ...

One of the earliest proponents of Abstract Expressionism was Dutch-born artist Willem de Kooning. While not a prolific printmaker, the few prints he did produce speak directly to the power he wielded ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

More than 30 painters examine themselves with unsparing honesty in a show of self-portraits bookended by Egon Schiele and Max Beckmann. By Will Heinrich A single self-portrait is an oddity — a ...