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Self-portrait in white jacket
(1901-1902)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 92.3 × 73.5 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Paris, France
- Inscription
- inscribed in brown paint l.r.: HRAMSAY. (SAY. underlined)
- Accession Number
- 2002.235
- Department
- Australian Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented through the NGV Foundation by Nell Turnbull, niece of the artist and by her children John Fullerton, Patricia Fullerton and Fiona Fullerton, Founder Benefactors, 2002
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Self-portrait in white jacket is a swaggering assertion of his self belief. Ramsay increases the sculputral impact of his strongly boned face with dramatic contrasts of lighting. A frown of concentration – and ancient convention for intellectual strength – continues the line of severely parted hair, through the straight nose, chin cleft and down the row of buttons on his jacket. With one hand on his hip and the other holding forth a brush, Ramsay declares his identity as a consummate painter. The white jacket, painted with uninhibited flourishes of oil paint in a melting array of pale creams, heightens his white iconic presence.
- Subjects (general)
- Human Figures Portraits
- Subjects (specific)
- artists' brushes costume (mode of fashion) men (male humans) Ramsay, Hugh
- Frame
- C.1905
