BRATBY, JOHN (1928-1992, artist and novelist)
SELF-PORTRAIT,
pencil drawing, half-length, smoking his pipe and wearing spectacles, signed, inscribed and dated 'John Bratby 19 June '61 Self-Portrait', 21 x 141/2 in (53.3 x 36.8 cm).
pencil drawing, half-length, smoking his pipe and wearing spectacles, signed, inscribed and dated 'John Bratby 19 June '61 Self-Portrait', 21 x 141/2 in (53.3 x 36.8 cm).
Sold for
£900
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Footnotes
- Robin Gibson of the National Portrait Gallery noted that Bratby 'almost certainly painted more portraits than any other living painter...like Beckman and Kokoschka before him Bratby produced a more or less unbroken stream of self-portraits from his student days onwards. While claiming as others have done that this is because he is his own most available model, the self-portraits do betray at times an almost obsessive search for self-identity and mirror the fortunes and misfortunes of his personal life in a highly autobiographical way' (Robin Gibson, John Bratby Portraits, 1991).
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