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REFLECTIONS ON THE SELF: FROM DÜRER TO STRUTH │ Christie’s, London → 5 September 2015

RUDOLF STINGEL, Untitled, 2010, oil on canvas, 131 × 102 1/4 inches (332.7 × 259.7 cm)
RUDOLF STINGEL, Untitled, 2010, oil on canvas, 131 × 102 1/4 inches (332.7 × 259.7 cm)

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ARTISTS INCLUDE
Maurizio Cattelan, Marlene Dumas, Albrecht Dürer, Lucian Freud, Francisco Goya, Richard Hamilton, Barbara Hepworth, Martin Kippenberger, LS Lowry, Sarah Lucas, Henri Matisse, Henry Moore, Edvard Munch, Albert Oehlen, Rembrandt van Rijn, Rudolf Stingel, Thomas Struth, Andy Warhol

“In an êj ẃr ɖ slfportrit hz arğbli bcm wn v ɖ most popylr viźl źãṛz, nt līst ʈru ɖ rîz v ɖ slfi, ɖs xbiśn sīcs t inrić âr undstandñ v its pârfl funẋn in śêpñ îdiyz v ɖ slf n îdentti”

Lucian Freud: Reflection (Self-Portrait), 1985. Oil on canvas, 22 x 19 7/8 in. (56 x 50.7cm.)
Lucian Freud: Reflection (Self-Portrait), 1985. Oil on canvas, 22 x 19 7/8 in. (56 x 50.7cm.)

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HENRI MATISSE SCULPTURE: THE BACKS │ Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts → 1 September 2015

Back I. Nu de dos I c.1909-10, cast 1955-6. Bronze, 1899 x 1168 x 184 mm.
Nu de dos I, c.1909-10, cast 1955-6. Bronze, 1899 x 1168 x 184 mm.

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“Hvr ofn y si ɖm, ɖ sîz n scêl v ɖ Bacs têcs yr breʈ awe”
Hilary Spurling GUARDIAN 12 May 2007 Continue reading HENRI MATISSE SCULPTURE: THE BACKS │ Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts → 1 September 2015

HENRI MATISSE: THE CUT-OUTS │ Tate Modern → 7 September 2014

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 Ɖ Snêl 1953

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 Blu Nyd (II) 1952

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Ɖ Šīf 1953

“Õri Mtīs z a jaynt v modn art. Ɖs landmāc šo xplorz ɖ fîṇl čaptr in hiz c̣rir in ẇč h bgan cāvñ intu culr n hiz siriz v spectaklr cutâts wz born.

Ɖ xibišn repriznts a wns-in-a-lîftîm čans t si so mni v ɖ ātist’s wrcs in wn plês n dscuvr Mtīs’z fîṇl ātistc trîumf.

In hiz lêt sixtiz, ẇn il helʈ frst privntd Mtīs fṛm pêntñ, h bgan t cut intu pêntd pêpr wɖ sizrz t mc drafts fr a nmbr v cmišnz. In tîm, Mtīs čoz cutâts ovr pêntñ: h hd invntd a ny mīdịm.

Fṛm snôflârz t dansrz, src̣șìnz n a fems snêl, ɖ xibišn šôcêsz a dazlñ are v 120 wrcs md btwn 1936 n 1954. Bold, xūbṛnt n ofn lj in scêl, ɖ cutâts hv an ingejñ simplisti cupld wɖ incredbl crietv ṣfisticešn.

Ɖ xibišn mācs an historic mmnt, ẇn trežrz fṛm arnd ɖ wrld cn b sīn tgɖr. Têt’s Ɖ Snêl 1953 z šôn alñsd its sistrwrc Memri v Ôšienia 1953 n Lj Comṗzišn wɖ Mascs 1953 at 10 mītrz loñ. A fôṭgraf v Mtīs’z stydio rvilz ɖt ɖz wrcs wr inišli cnsivd az a ynifîd hol, n ɖs z ɖ frst tîm ɖe wl hv bn tgɖr in ovr 50 yirz. Ɖ xibišn olso plêsz sîdbîsîd ɖ ljst nmbr v Mtīs’z fems Blu Nydz evr xibitd tgɖr.

Lundn z frst t hôst, bfr ɖ xibišn travlz t Ny Ywc at ɖ Myziym v Modn Āt n aftr ẇč ɖ wrcs rtrn t gaḷriz n prîvt ônrz arnd ɖ wrld.”

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