Self Portrait

Copyright

Work in the public domain
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Maker


1866-1934

Title

Self Portrait

Date of Production

1928

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 45.7 cm (canvas)
Width: 37.1 cm (canvas)

Object Number

P.1994.XX.1

Mode of Acquisition

Julian Agnew, Art Fund and V&A Purchase Grant Fund, September 1994

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust). Purchased with the assistance of the Art Fund and the Victoria & Albert Museum Purchase Grant Fund, 1994

Location

On display
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Label Text

Roger Fry was active as a painter, notably of portraits, but it was as an art critic and aesthetic theorist that he was most influential in the first decades of the 20th century. In this, one of several self-portraits, he depicts himself with an expression of intense visual scrutiny. Fry bequeathed a large amount of his collection to the Courtauld and his daughter, Pamela Diamond, supplemented it with important later donations.

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : signed & dated : lower left & recto : : Roger Fry 1928

Provenance

Roger Eliot Fry; Sir Geoffrey Agnew; Julian Agnew; purchased by the Samuel Courtauld Trust with assistance from the Art Fund and Victoria & Albert Museum Purchase Grant Fund, September 1994.

Exhibition History

Roger Fry, Charleston, Firle, 15/11/2025-15/03/2026; Museum of Somerset, Taunton, 28/03/2026-04/07/2026
Cezanne. Masterpieces from the Courtauld Gallery, KODE, Bergen, Norway, 16/07/2021-10/10/2021
Courtauld Connects Regional Programme: The Bloomsbury Effect, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, 15/12/2019-16/02/2020
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Special Display - Bloomsbury Art & Design, Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/02/2017-20/09/2017
Cezanne and the Past - Tradition and Creation, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 25/10/2012-17/01/2013
Portrait of the Artist as ..., Courtauld Gallery, London, 26/06/2012-22/07/2012
The Courtauld Collects - 20 Years of Acquisitions, Somerset House & London & England, 17/06/2010-19/09/2010
Conversation Anglais - Le Group de Bloomsbury, La Piscine & Roubaix & France, 20/11/2009-27/02/2010
Decorating Life - The Art of the Bloomsbury Group, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, England, 29/11/2003-24/01/2004
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