Jean-Michel Basquiat.

“Self-Portrait” by Jean-Michel Basquiat. The 1985 acrylic-on-wood painting was included in a 32-lot auction of contemporary works held by Phillips de Pury & Co. at Claridge’s Hotel, London, on June 27.

Jun 27, 2011

A Jean-Michel Basquiat self-portrait sold last night as London started a week of contemporary-art events that include evening auctions with a top estimate of 200 million pounds ($320 million) and the Masterpiece fair.

The Basquiat, dating from 1985 and featuring a half-length self-portrait next to a wooden panel covered in bottle tops, fetched 2.1 million pounds ($3.4 million) at Phillips de Pury & Co.’s first contemporary sale at Claridge’s in Mayfair. The price was five times the $647,500 it fetched at Phillips de Pury, New York, in 2003.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-27/basquiat-s-price-soars-fivefold-as-320-million-auctions-start.html

Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)

Self-portrait. c. 1875

Oil on canvas

Dimensions 64 × 53 cm 

Musée d’Orsay

Pablo Ruiz Picasso - First self portrait

“Self-Portrait”. 1896 year

Oil on canvas

Barcelona, Picasso Museum

http://www.pablo-ruiz-picasso.net/work-7.php

Self portrait - M.C. ESCHER

 
Big Self-Portrait, 1967-68.
Acrylic on canvas. 107 1/2 x 83 1/2” (273 x 212 cm). Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Art Center Acquisition Fund, 1969. ©1998 Chuck Close

American artist Chuck Close has been a leading figure in contemporary art since the early 1970s. Best known for the monumental heads he has painted in thousands of tiny airbrush bursts, thumbprints, or looping multi-color brushstrokes, Close has developed a formal analysis and methodological reconfiguration of the human face that have radically changed the definition of modern portraiture. This exhibition presents the full spectrum of his career and includes some ninety paintings, drawings, and photographs.

http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/1998/close/index.html

Victor Brecheret

Self-portrait - Bronze Sculpture

http://masp.art.br/masp2010/acervo_detalheobra.php?id=510

Victor Brecheret (February 22, 1894 – December 17, 1955) was an Italian-Brazilian sculptor. He lived most of his life in São Paulo, except for his studies in Paris in his early twenties. Brecheret’s work combines techniques of European modernist sculpture with references to his native country through the physical characteristics of his human forms and visual motifs drawn from Brazilian folk art. Many of his subjects are figures from the Bible or classical mythology.

Brecheret was one of the first Brazilian modernists to achieve success. In 1921 his sculpture Eve was acquired by the São Paulo city hall. In 1922 his work was exhibited in the foyer of the Municipal Theatre during the Week of Modern Art (Semana de Arte Moderna). His O Grupo was acquired by the French government in 1934 for the Musée Jeu de Paume; it was later moved to the public library at La Roche-sur-Yon, where it remains on display. His best-known work, the massive Monument às Bandeiras at the Parque Ibirapuera in São Paulo, was proposed (in the form of a plaster miniature) in 1920, begun in 1936, and completed on January 25, 1953.

Plabo Ruiz Picasso

Self Portrait, 1907

Oil on canvas

http://www.pablo-ruiz-picasso.net/work-57.php

Las Meninas, Diego Velázquez (1656-7)

Las Meninas is at once a self-portrait, and a portrait of Philip’s five-year-old daughter, the Infanta Margarita Teresa, who stands in the central light flanked by her meninas, or ladies-in-waiting, Maria Agustina Sarmiento and Isabel de Velasco; it is also a genre scene of court life, featuring the court dwarfs Maribárbola and (teasing the dog) Nicolasito Pertusato, and behind them, two courtiers conferring while the Queen’s Chamberlain José Nieto stands framed in the doorway at the back of the picture. Finally it is a regal portrait: the mirror on the rear wall contains the reflected image of Philip IV and his queen, Maria Anna.

David with the Head of Goliath (1609-10) oil on canvas cm. 125x101 

 Michelangelo Merisi called Caravaggio

n May 1606 Caravaggio was accused of murder and fled from Rome to distant lands (Naples, Sicily, Malta) to escape the price that had been placed on his head. His self-portrait as Goliath’s severed head, held by David his executioner, was sent to the papal court in 1610 as a kind of painted petition for pardon. In fact pardon was granted, but did not reach Caravaggio before he died in Porto Ercole. In his David with the Head of GoliathCaravaggio pays tribute to the rapid brushstrokes Titian adopts in his later works and surrounds the youth’s face with a kind of luminous halo that shines out from the dark, earthy tints surrounding the figure.

http://www.galleriaborghese.it/borghese/en/edavicara.htm