Paul Lucien Dessau
English, b. 1909

Self-Portrait, 1940

Oil on canvas
24 x 19 1/8 in. (61 x 48.6 cm)
Signed and dated, l.l.: "PAUL DESSAU '40," inscribed u.l. "The Tired Fireman — After Surrey Dock September 1940"
Gift of English Speaking Union, 1942.309

Unknown 25;

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 126.

A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago, 1980), p. 65, no. 3E5.

Ownership History

Gift to Art Institute, 1942.