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Disability is the central theme of a new exhibition of paintings by the artist Lucy Jones, who creates brash, brightly colored self-portraits despite a number of physical challenges.
A self-portrait by Johnny Depp is among artwork by the actor that is to go on sale. The collection, named Let the Light In, ...
Painting nude is not Jones’ usual approach to documenting her physical form. In fact, after her 50th portrait, she didn’t create another one until sixteen years later.
Alice Neel was born in 1900 and became one of the world’s most renowned portrait artists. But, it wasn’t until the artist was 80 years old that she produced her first self-portrait.
A never-before-seen self-portrait by Norman Cornish, the celebrated 20th-century painter from northern England, has been discovered on the back of one of his framed works.
An exhibition at the Munch museum in Oslo shows how the artist’s fascination with medicine, bodies and mental illness was ...
The museum, which has housed Self-Portrait with Glasses (1903) since 1945, is re-examining the work following claims that it may have been painted not by Gauguin, but by a Vietnamese revolutionary ...