The earliest portraits were created to illustrate physical or material attributes of the sitter, which historically included nobility, family, friends, lovers, and the self. The breadth of the works in Portraits/Self-Portraits demonstrates that portraiture has been an on-going and reoccurring theme in art history, especially in Western culture, for centuries. This survey includes Old Master paintings from Italy, France, England, and The Netherlands, as well as works by modern and contemporary artists. New York, NY: 21 December 2011 – Sperone Westwater will present an exhibition of portrait and self-portrait paintings by notable European and American artists from the sixteenth century to the present.
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