1920 (ca.), Pierre Bonnard, Self-Portrait with Beard -- Phillips Collection (Washington) (special exhibition)
From the exhibition label: Over the course of his career, from the late 1880s until the year before his death, Bonnard painted more than a dozen self-portraits. (He made many more drawings of himself, and he placed himself in many works with other figures and themes.) In this portrait, his expression is wary, his eyes slightly narrowed, though his gaze is direct. The likeness is roughly drawn in black paint, wiped into the ground beneath patches of red, orange, and yellow that give it a mysterious glowing quality, as if it were seen in firelight.
1920 (ca.), Pierre Bonnard, Self-Portrait with Beard -- Phillips Collection (Washington) (special exhibition)
From the exhibition label: Over the course of his career, from the late 1880s until the year before his death, Bonnard painted more than a dozen self-portraits. (He made many more drawings of himself, and he placed himself in many works with other figures and themes.) In this portrait, his expression is wary, his eyes slightly narrowed, though his gaze is direct. The likeness is roughly drawn in black paint, wiped into the ground beneath patches of red, orange, and yellow that give it a mysterious glowing quality, as if it were seen in firelight.