Self Portrait

Category: Paintings

Artist: Chris Gollon

Subject: Larger Works

Year of Work: 1999

Media: mixed media on panels

Size: 36" x 30"

This self portrait is in a private collection in London. Gollon's self portraits are rare and the images or settings always mysterious. Here Gollon has chosen to exaggerate his hands and cigarette, and to wear an absurd Zorro-style mask. He has also painted his friend and agent, David Tregunna, as if haunting the painting as an apparition. Many a night they have spent in bars, and it was often a standing joke that wherever Tregunna would stand, Gollon's ciagarette smoke would waft his way. No change here in this painting, as it will now be in his face forever. As will this record of a friendship.

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Other Gollon self portraits are here:'The King (Self Portrait after Beckmann)

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