Self-Portrait (No. 9)

Arts of the Americas

1982

Ivan Albright (American, 1897–1983)

In 1981 Albright began a series of drawn and painted self-portraits at the invitation of the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, which for four centuries has collected other significant examples of this motif. For the next two years, ending with his death in 1983, the artist, energized by this great honor, created around 24 small self-portraits in various media, a series that constitutes a summation of his vision and technical prowess.

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Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Ivan Albright
Title: Self-Portrait (No. 9)
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1982
Medium: Pastel on hardboard
Inscriptions: Signed and dated lower left: 1982 / Ivan Albright
Dimensions: 33 × 25.4 cm (13 × 10 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Ivan Albright
Reference Number: 1985.425
Copyright: © The Art Institute of Chicago.

Sarah Kelly Oehler, ed., Ivan Albright Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2019), https://www.artic.edu/digitalalbright, cat. 33 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Ivan Albright, Feb. 20–May 11, 1997, cat.; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ivan Albright: Magic Realist, June 10–Sept. 7, 1997.
Art Institute of Chicago, Homegrown: The School of the Art Institute in the Permanent Collection, Oct. 17, 2015–Feb. 14, 2016.
Art Institute of Chicago, Flesh: Ivan Albright at the Art Institute of Chicago, May 4–Aug. 5, 2018, no cat.

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