TitleSelf-Portrait
Artist
Philip Pearlstein
(American, 1924 - 2022)
Date1982
MediumWatercolor on white wove paper
DimensionsSheet size: 29 1/8 × 41 3/8 in.
Mat size: 35 15/16 × 47 15/16 in.
SignedSigned at BRE: "PEARLSTEIN 82".
MarkingsBlindstamp at TLC: "VERITABLE PAPIER D'ARCHES"
SubmissionANA diploma presentation, December 3, 1986
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number1986.229
Label TextPhilip Pearlstein is the foremost figurative painter in the postwar era. Since about 1962, he has turned attention almost exculsively to the classical subject of the studio-posed nude, and began producing the extended series of paintings with which he is most identified: models shown singly or in pairs, at intentionally unsettling angles, often truncated, and always with extreme objectivity of realism.Well known as a painter concerned with the formal relationship of the figure to the setting, in this self-portrait Pearlstein has presented himself reflected in a Venetian glass mirror that he found in a flea market and bought to use for this portrait. He also appears in the many small convex mirrors forming the decorative border. From his studio in the American Academy in Rome, Pearlstein could see the Castel Sant'Angelo and other buildings of the city, and he includes them in the distance.
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