Arnulf Rainer
Self Portrait

Self Portrait
Self Portrait
Self Portrait
ArtistAustrian, born 1929
CultureAustrian
Titles
  • Self Portrait
Date1969–1970
PlaceAustria
MediumGelatin silver print with crayon
DimensionsImage: 12 5/8 × 9 15/16 in. (32 × 25.2 cm)
Sheet: 12 5/8 × 9 15/16 in. (32.1 × 25.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Manfred Heiting, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.3182
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionFrom the 1950s to the present, Arnulf Rainer’s work has probed death, pain, and spiritual elevation. Self-Portrait is from his series titled Farce Face, in which Rainer photographed his own face in grimaces and contortions that he felt imitated those of altered mental states—such as dreams, hallucinations, mental illness—that allow the mind to transcend the human condition.
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Brown Foundation Galleries, February 21 - May 9, 2010.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
bottom left on image in crayon " A Rainer "

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