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Peter Morrell’s 1957 self portrait shows the artist appearing diminutive in perspective and fragile-looking within the confines of what appears to be a huge, empty barn or warehouse structure. Morrell’s posture is tentative and awkward, his shoulders oppressed by the weight of the huge, empty space. His boyish face looks lost and gaunt. The grid of rafters and beams above appears hard-edged and impersonal, though warmed by yellow light. Yet there is a dignity in the artist’s central, full-frontal pose. Something of Giacometti’s near-contemporaneous sketchy oil paintings of grey, haunted people stranded against abysmally dark backgrounds, seems present here. Morrell studied at Kingston School of Art and at the Royal College of Art.
The Ruth Borchard Collection
Title
Self Portrait
Date
1957
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 61 x W 46 cm
Accession number
PCF87
Acquisition method
acquired by Ruth Borchard as part of the original collection
Work type
Painting
