Self-Portrait
1935
Painter, American, born Hungary, 1890 - 1954
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 53.34 × 38.1 cm (21 × 15 in.)
framed: 77.47 × 61.6 × 5.08 cm (30 1/2 × 24 1/4 × 2 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.70
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Acquired October 1943 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington;[1] acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] The artist's painting Still Life, purchased by the Corcoran in March 1943 from their 18th Biennial exhibition, was returned to the artist in exchange.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1935
Fourteenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 24 March - 5 May 1935, no. 179..
1939
American Art Today, World's Fair, New York, 1939-1940, no. 517.
1954
Eugen Weisz Memorial Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1954, no. 8, repro.
1998
The Forty-Fifth Biennial: The Corcoran Collects, 1907–1998, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 17 July - 29 September 1998, unnumbered catalogue.
Bibliography
2011
Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 324, repro.
Inscriptions
lower right: E.W. 35
Wikidata ID
Q46635003