Self-portrait
(1934)
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
76.8 × 51.0 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1946
© the Artist's Estate. All Rights Reserved / Bridgeman Images
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Few artists of his generation were as attuned to the strangeness of everyday life as the painter Carel Weight. His preferred subject was the sense of unease that situations and inanimate objects can convey. In this self-portrait a bulky paisley quilt overpowers the artist’s physical presence within the composition and renders the ill-lit interior claustrophobic. This painting and the jumper worn by the painter had a charmed life. Both survived a bomb that destroyed Weight’s London residence during the Second World War.
Artwork Details
Accession Number
1553-4
Department
International Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Subjects (general)
Portraits
Subjects (specific)
artists (visual artists) painters (artists) palettes (painting equipment) self-portraits three-quarter views Weight, Carel