Self-Portrait with Palette

Lovis Corinth · April 1924

This one's called Self-Portrait with Palette — a painting by the German artist Lovis Corinth, April nineteen twenty-four. Oil on canvas — pigment ground into a slow-drying oil, which is what lets a painter go back into wet paint for days.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 39 3/8 x 31 5/8" (100 x 80.3 cm) · Credit Gift of Curt Valentin

Hanging beside it in Gallery 514: Raoul Hausmann as Dancer, Our Father / which art / in heaven (Vaterunser / Der Du bist / im Himmel) from The Lord's Prayer (Das Vater Unser)

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Self-Portrait with a Cigarette, Portrait of Maria Lani, Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair, Self-Portrait with Two Flowers in Her Raised Left Hand, Self-Portrait I, The Lovers