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| Maker(s): | Sleigh, Sylvia | | Culture: | Welsh (ca. 1916-2010)
| | Title: | Self Portrait at Dressing Table (aka Self-Portrait at Pett, Sussex)
| | Date Made: | 1953
| | Type: | Painting
| | Materials: | Oil on canvas wrapped around and stapled onto paper board
| | Measurements: | panel: 16 7/8 in x 20 5/8 in; 42.9 cm x 52.4 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | signature and date written in lower left: 53 SLEIGH 18
| | Accession Number: | SC 2017.65.1
| | Credit Line: | Gift of the Estate of Sylvia Sleigh
| | Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
self-portrait; artist is shown in 3/4 profile, dressed in light blue, long-sleeved top with a pink, black, and blue-grey patterned scarf, hair tied back, seated at a dressing table; cropped just above hairline and just below forearm; left side of face is reflected in a titled mirror on dressing table; in front of mirror are several pieces of jewelry, to which sitter's right hand gestures; wood paneling and lower half of a window with bare trees are visible behind sitter.
Tags:
self-portraits; interiors Subjects:
Canvas; Self-portraits; interior Link to share this object record:
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