Self Portrait

© the estate of Anthony Green RA. Image credit: Ruth Borchard Collection

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Borchard bought Green’s self portrait at the ‘Young Contemporaries’ exhibition in 1960. To those acquainted with Green’s post-1970 paintings – detailed, vividly coloured, sharply focussed montages from Green’s family life, presented on sprawlingly asymmetrical canvases or freestanding structures – this self portrait may hardly seem to be by him at all. However, it was painted during an explorative time. It is a self-interrogating picture. The bare light bulb, with its swirling Van Goghian ‘aura’, may call to mind an image of a bare bulb in an interrogation cell. The fierce, scared look on his face is communicated through two huge, bespectacled eyes, the left one unnaturally enhanced in perspective. Yet, the overall effect is as much comic as disquieting.

The Ruth Borchard Collection

Title

Self Portrait

Date

1960

Medium

oil on board

Measurements

H 76 x W 60.5 cm

Accession number

PCF44

Acquisition method

acquired by Ruth Borchard as part of the original collection

Work type

Painting

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