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Artist |
Delaney, Beauford |
Title |
Self-Portrait |
Medium |
Charcoal and pastel on newsprint |
Date |
circa 1963 |
Description |
Beauford Delaney (Knoxville 1901-1979 Paris) Self-Portrait, 1963 Charcoal and pastel on newsprint 14 1/4 x 18 3/4 inches Knoxville Museum of Art, 2014 purchase with funds provided by the Rachael Patterson Young Art Acquisition Reserve Pastel accents enliven this introspective charcoal portrait sketch, which depicts Beauford Delaney in his early 60s during a period in which he was living in the Montparnasse area of Paris. The intensity of the artist's gaze was noted memorably by writer James Baldwin in recounting his first encounter with Delaney at the artist's Greenwich Village studio in 1940: "I was terrified, once I had climbed those stairs and knocked on that door. A short, round brown man came to the door and looked at me. He had the most extraordinary eyes I'd ever seen. When he had completed his instant X-ray of my brain, lungs, liver, heart, bowels, and spinal column (while I had said, usefully, 'Emile sent me') he smiled and said, 'Come in,' and opened the door. He opened the door all right." |
Catalog Number |
2014.13.10 |
Search Terms |
Charcoal drawings Pastels (Visual works) Self-portraits Portrait drawings Portraits Drawings Paper LBGTQ+ Artist |
Credit line |
purchase with funds provided by the Rachael Patterson Young Art Acquisition Reserve |