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Borchard bought Green’s self portrait at the ‘Young Contemporaries’ exhibition in 1960. To those acquainted with Green’s post-1970 paintings – detailed, vividly coloured, sharply focussed montages from Green’s family life, presented on sprawlingly asymmetrical canvases or freestanding structures – this self portrait may hardly seem to be by him at all. However, it was painted during an explorative time. It is a self-interrogating picture. The bare light bulb, with its swirling Van Goghian ‘aura’, may call to mind an image of a bare bulb in an interrogation cell. The fierce, scared look on his face is communicated through two huge, bespectacled eyes, the left one unnaturally enhanced in perspective. Yet, the overall effect is as much comic as disquieting.
Green states: ‘In my second year at the Slade I had fallen passionately in love with a beautiful girl, to whom I was returning from France in a few months to marry. The fact gave me the motivation and subject matter I needed – my family and its continuing story.’
The Ruth Borchard Collection
Title
Self Portrait
Date
1960
Medium
oil on board
Measurements
H 76 x W 60.5 cm
Accession number
PCF44
Acquisition method
acquired by Ruth Borchard as part of the original collection
Work type
Painting
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