テート・ギャラリーのインスタグラム(tate) - 12月13日 21時42分

Have you ever tried painting a self-portrait? Stanley Spencer believed that the secret of a good portrait was that instead of giving you something, it takes something away.

This was the artist's final self-portrait, painted five months before his death on 14 December 1959. Although seriously ill, he finished the painting in five days, working from a bedroom mirror. The work is remarkable for the unflinching scrutiny of the artist’s gaze, and his meticulous close-up detail. Swipe left to see the artist's first self-portrait, painted 45 years earlier. He painted this portrait over the course of nearly a year in the front bedroom of his family home in Cookham. Spencer’s use of extreme close-up, in both portraits, gives a sense of physical and psychological intensity. Presented together, we're faced with the passing of time and the nature of aging.

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