Kane's 1929 Self-Portrait is considered one of the artist's masterpieces. The portrait is both a shockingly realistic depiction of the male body—veins, chest hair, and all—and an object meant for decorative display, with a frame indicated around the image edges and painted arches defining the figure's head. Kane produced most of his work in a concentrated period of time—the last seven years of his life.
Credit: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
1929
Oil on canvas over board
91.8 x 68.9cm
6.1939
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