Self-Portrait
Regarded for his long tenure as a professor of art at Yale University, Bailey is known primarily as a painter of finely rendered and hyper-illusionistic, but fictional, still lifes. Thus, this self-portrait is quite anomalous in his oeuvre. Bailey shows himself bearded and wearing a blue jacket, as he returns the viewer’s gaze plainly against a warm, light-brown ground. The palette is generally muted, reminiscent of Picasso’s Rose and Blue Periods, which imbues the image with a contemplative quietude.
Artwork Details
- Title: Self-Portrait
- Artist: William Bailey (American, Council Bluffs, Iowa 1930–2020 Branford, Connecticut)
- Date: 1975
- Medium: Opaque watercolor on paper
- Dimensions: 14 13/16 × 11 1/4 in. (37.6 × 28.6 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Gift of Steven Kossak, The Kronos Collections, 2017
- Object Number: 2017.325
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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