National Gallery of Victoria
Visit
Tickets
Plan Your Visit
Access
Booked Tours
Dining
Venue hire
What’s On
Exhibitions
Events
Tours
Art & Design
Collection
Channel
Conservation
Research & Archives
Publications
Learn
Kids
Teens
Teachers & Students
Adults
Support & Join
Donate
Membership
Partnerships
NGVWA
Shop
Search
Menu
Search
Self portrait
1945
Albert TUCKER
Gallery location
Gallery 8
Level 2, NGV Australia
Artwork Details
Medium
oil on cotton on cardboard
Measurements
75.7 × 60.5 cm
Inscription
inscribed in blue paint
u.r.:
Tucker 1945
inscribed in black paint on reverse
u.c.:
ALBERT TUCKER / 47 ROBE ST. / ST. KILDA / VIC. (VIC. underlined)
inscribed in red paint on reverse
c.:
SELF PORTRAIT. / 1945 / 30 x 23¾
Accession Number
A2-1982
Department
Australian Painting
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of Ms Rita Avdiev, Governor, 1982
© Albert & Barbara Tucker Foundation. Courtesy of Smith & Singer Fine Art
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Gallery 8
Level 2, NGV Australia
Subjects (general)
Human Figures
Portraits
Subjects (specific)
artists (visual artists)
men (male humans)
portrait heads
self-portraits
single-sitter portraits
Tucker, Albert
Movements
Angry Penguins
Discover more
Exhibition
Albert Tucker
Essay
Albert Tucker's Memory of Leonski
Essay
Albert Tucker’s City
Exhibition
Landfall
Essay
Sacred geometry: The art and life of Reko Rennie
Essay
Joy Hester
Pauline McCarthy
Essay
The home front
Essay
Top Arts 2019: celebrating twenty-five years
Exhibition
Lurid Beauty
Essay
Outer Circle: The Boyds and the Murrumbeena Artists
Exhibition
Follow the Flag
Essay
The violent vision of the 1940s
Essay
The lost Wimmera years of Sidney Nolan 1942–44
Essay
Joy Hester’s Man in cork hat
Essay
A human, democratic art: three realist artists 1944–1947
Essay
Embodied Modernism: Visual arts and the aesthetics of Roger Kemp and Rudolf Steiner
Essay
Index 1945–2010
Essay
Collecting the forties in the eighties
Explore the collection
The finding of the True Cross
COLA dell'Amatrice
(Minstrel)
Edwin LANDSEER
10 Rillington Place
Brett WHITELEY
Self-portrait
Joseph WRIGHT of Derby
Two pencil sketches
Charles Samuel KEENE
A monk with a book
TITIAN
Footballer
Sidney NOLAN
The River Nile, Van Diemen's Land, from Mr Glover's farm
John GLOVER
The pioneer
Frederick McCUBBIN
Study of Medieval figures
Charles Samuel KEENE
Study of a man standing
Charles Samuel KEENE
A Dilemma
Phil MAY
Phil May's Gutter Snipes Frontispiece
Phil MAY
The first cloud
William Quiller ORCHARDSON
Great dancing pair
Erich HECKEL
Two Pennorth
Phil MAY
Mother and child
Cornelis de VOS
Remember Remember
Phil MAY
Lady Rous née Charlotte Maria Whittaker, second wife of the 6th Baronet, later, Earl of Stradbroke
William BEECHEY
Not Satisfied?
Honoré DAUMIER
The babe is wise
Lina BRYANS
The red hat
William FRATER
Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
Jusepe de RIBERA
Weeping woman
Pablo PICASSO
Little Red Riding Hood
Gustave DORÉ
Portrait of a gentleman
Louis TOCQUÉ
Chacmool
Tarascan, Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, West Mexico
The skittle players
David TENIERS II
Diaphanous figures no. 4
YU Hong
Rembrandt
REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn; REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn (studio of)
Visit
Tickets
Plan Your Visit
Access
Booked Tours
Dining
Venue hire
What’s On
Exhibitions
Events
Tours
Art & Design
Collection
Channel
Conservation
Research & Archives
Publications
Learn
Kids
Teens
Teachers & Students
Adults
Support & Join
Donate
Membership
Partnerships
NGVWA
Shop
Follow the NGV
Instagram
Facebook
LinkedIn
Youtube
Twitter
Threads
Spotify
Weibo
We Chat
Redbook - xiaohongshu