Medium
oil on composition board
Measurements
203.0 × 244.0 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1958
© the Artist's Estate. All Rights Reserved / Bridgeman Images
Gallery location
Not on display
Inscription
inscribed in white paint l.c.l.: BRATBY / 1957
Accession Number
3773-4
Department
International Painting
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Subjects (general)
Portraits
Subjects (specific)
artists (visual artists) Bratby, John men (male humans) painterliness painters (artists) record players self-portraits smoking (activity)
Provenance
With the Beaux-Arts Gallery (dealer), London, 1957; from where purchased, on the advice of A. J. L. McDonnell, for the Felton Bequest 1957.
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