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Borchard saw Brazier’s work in the ‘Young Contemporaries 1959’ exhibition. Self portrait with outstretched hand was on sale in ‘Young Contemporaries 1960’. Borchard wrote: ‘This is the careful avoidance of human drama as a subject matter...Why not the ‘cri de coeur’, also, in what is being painted? This I find in...Kenneth Brazier’. Brazier went to the Slade. He is recalled by contemporaries, Anthony Green and Ben Levene, as an exceptionally talented student and a wild, bohemian man. His self portrait is indeed a speedy ‘cri de coeur’’, a viscerally self-conscious crisis painting by a vulnerable man. The subject achieves a poise removed from serenity as he contemplates himself or perhaps some terrible real or imagined scene.
Title
Self Portrait
Date
1959
Medium
oil on board
Measurements
H 56.5 x W 55.5 cm
Accession number
PCF9
Acquisition method
acquired by Ruth Borchard as part of the original collection
Work type
Painting