portrait – Page 4 – Little Bristling Soul

Genevieve Cadieux

Raphael, Portrait of a Young Woman, 1518–1519, Oil on wood

Cindy Sherman, Untitled #205, 1989

Irving Penn, Kate Moss, 1996

untitled-1991:

louise bourgeois “portrait of c.y” 1947-49

Source: untitled-1991

Lucian Freud – Girl In Bed – 1952

Moses Soyer – Girl With a Cigarette – 1968

artist-matisse:

Marguerite, Henri Matisse

1900mm:

“My sister Luisa shortly before her suicide“ – In the months before her death Luisa became withdrawn, dyed her hair a desperately hopeful orangish-blonde shade, and lost a ton of weight. You can see the wear in her face. Another casualty of clinical depression.

The picture of the flowers came in a photo frame I bought at Rite Aid. The picture of the flowers and the picture of Luisa wound up side by side on my scanner bed.

Nan Goldin
David H. looking down, Zurich
1998
Cibachrome
40 x 30 inches; 102 x 76 cm

raveneuse:

Francis Bacon’s Triptych – August 1972 is one in a series of Black Triptychs which followed the suicide of Bacon’s lover, George Dyer. The artist’s biographer wrote:

“What death has not already consumed seeps out of the figures as their shadows.”

caelumadmare:

Napoleon sur son lit de mort (1826) by Horace Vernet
Died May 5th, 1821

Source: caelumadmare

Imogen Cunningham, Roi on the Dipsea Trail 4, 1918