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| Anton Graff Self-portrait with eyeshade 1813 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Francisco Goya Self-portrait with Dr Arrieta 1820 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| George Hendrik Breitner Self-portrait with pince-nez ca. 1882 oil on panel Gemeentemuseum, The Hague |
ON RACHMANINOFF'S BIRTHDAY
Quick! a last poem before I go
off my rocker. Oh Rachmaninoff!
Onset, Massachusetts. Is it the fig-newton
playing the horn? Thundering windows
of hell, will your tubes ever break
into powder? Oh my palace of oranges,
junk shop, staples, umber, basalt;
I'm a child again when I was really
miserable, a grope pizzicato. My pocket
of rhinestone, yoyo, carpenter's pencil,
amethyst, hypo, campaign button,
is the room full of smoke? Shit
on the soup, let it burn. So it's back.
You'll never be mentally sober.
– written in 1953 by Frank O'Hara and published in Lunch Poems (1964)
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| Paul Gauguin Self-portrait 1885 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Vincent van Gogh Self-portrait 1889 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Richard Gerstl Semi-nude self-portrait 1904-05 oil on canvas Leopold Museum, Vienna |
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| Richard Gerstl Nude self-portrait with palette 1908 oil on canvas Leopold Museum, Vienna |
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| Egon Schiele Self-portrait with striped shirt 1910 drawing with pigment Leopold Museum. Vienna |
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| Egon Schiele Nude self-portrait 1910 drawing with pigment Leopold Museum, Vienna |
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| Egon Schiele Seated male nude (self-portrait) 1910 drawing with pigment Leopold Museum, Vienna |
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| Egon Schiele Self-portrait with splayed fingers 1911 drawing with pigment Leopold Museum, Vienna |
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| Egon Schiele Self-portrait with lowered head 1912 oil on canvas Leopold Museum, Vienna |
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| Egon Schiele Self-portrait with striped sleeves 1915 drawing with pigment Leopold Museum, Vienna |
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| William Orpen Ready To Start (self-portrait) 1917 oil on panel Imperial War Museum, London |
"Painted shortly after his arrival in France, Orpen is inspecting himself in the mirror wearing his military uniform. In a wonderfully revealing self-portrait, he sets out an artistic agenda of colour, pattern, light and texture and a social agenda of drink and sensuality that were to be fulfilled during his time in France."
– curator's notes, Imperial War Museum