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Self Portrait

© the artist / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: Ruth Borchard Collection

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Borchard wrote 'Why cannot we have paintings, also, like Goya’s? Why not the ‘cri de coeur’, also, in what is being painted? This I find in Anthony Whishaw...’ This reference to Goya is apt, Whishaw developing a lifelong love for Spain. He was joyfully overwhelmed first seeing Goya’s ‘Black Paintings’ years ago. As a teenager he reacted with fury to reproductions of Picasso’s work but went on to ‘develop an enormous rapport with Cubist work’. Whishaw’s close-up, semi-profile view of his downward-looking head may indeed be interpreted as a ‘cri de coeur’. It is a heart-rendingly wistful study of a vulnerable human presence, one imbued with a vivid quietness of spirit. Whishaw grew up in South America. Of Spain, he said 'What attracted me to Spain was the brownness, the ruggedness, the sense of hidden drama.

The Ruth Borchard Collection

Title

Self Portrait

Date

1960

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 45.5 x W 36 cm

Accession number

PCF127

Acquisition method

acquired by Ruth Borchard as part of the original collection

Work type

Painting

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The Ruth Borchard Collection

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