News from Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times that William Dobson's earliest Self Portrait has been jointly acquired by ...

Perhaps the most singular work acquired is Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria (around 1624-26), a rediscovered painting by Virginia Vezzi (1600-38), an undersung figure in the art ...

This is the time of year Old Master addicts like me start to hang around auction house landing pages waiting for glimpes of ...

One of the most iconic and expressive self-portraits is ‘The Desperate Man’ by Gustave Courbet. Courbet paints himself as a young man, his eyes wide in surprise, and his hands on his head ...

appear as hefty as a watermelon), his self-portraits, scattered throughout, are the most customarily revealing and powerful things on display. In them, the artist reconfigures himself as a puffy ...

This exhibition features thirty-five photographs—self-portraits or portraits of other artists—which reflect radically new propositions for what a portrait might be. They foreground the idea that ...

If you think the selfie was born as a direct result of the cellphone, “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” painted just over 500 years ago by Francesco Mazzola, the Italian artist commonly ...

A hidden self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh has ... one of the most important and popular artists in the world.” The Dutch master often re-used canvases to save money, turning them around to ...

New York-based visual artist Tschabalala Self was commissioned to create portraits of the powerhouse men in the Washington family—father Denzel and sons John David and Malcolm—behind the ...