Monday Portrait: Gilbert and George, 1991

Gilbert and George photographed in New York in 1991. 

Monday Portrait: Jay Z and Andy Warhol

Top image Andy Warhol Museum
Bottom image courtesy Jay Z's instagram

Jay Z at the Andy Warhol museum recreating the artist's pose.

Monday Portrait: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Image c/o Jack Shainman Gallery

One of 2013 Turner Prize nominee Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's wonderful imaginary portraits. See more of her work here.

Belated monday portrait: Cerith Wyn Evans

Image c/o White Cube

Artist Cerith Wyn Evans' take on the self portrait 'Inverse Reverse Perverse', 1996.

Read more about the installation at White Cube's Duke Street gallery here, the work is now in the Tate Britain collection.

Monday Portrait: Chongqing by Kate Thackara

First exhibited at the Organhaus, this ethereal film by Kate Thackara explores the fastest growing urbanisation in the world: the Chinese city of Chongqing. See it in London this thursday at Limewharf on Vyner Street, E2 9DQ.

Monday Portrait: Ken Currie

Continuing a slightly morbid run of Monday Portraits, this week is 'Unfamiliar Reflection', 2002 by Ken Currie. The reflection brings to mind Francis Bacon's 1955 work 'Study for a Portrait II (after the Life Mask of William Blake)'.

For those in Edinburgh, Currie's latest exhibition 'New Works' opens this weekend at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

Monday Portrait: The Cholmondeley Ladies, Artist unknown

c.1600-1600, Artist unknown. Part of the Tate Britain collection, currently on show. If you haven't been recently we highly recommend a visit as their main galleries have been rehung.

The faintly visible gold script at the bottom of the painting says: 'Two Ladies of the Cholmondeley Family, Who were born the same day, Married the same day, And brought to Bed the same day"

Monday Portrait: Dead Tom with Collar Buttoned

Dead Tom with Collar Buttoned

Kit Grover 1980

Wax crayon & ink on paper

In memory of Tom Piechowski - for 33 years he defiantly fought the title of this work and died June 6, 2013. RIP

Monday Portrait: Maggi Hambling 'Victim I'

 

'Victim I', 2013, Maggi Hambling. (Photo Douglas Atfield)

Monday Portrait: Marina Abramovic

Marina Abramovic, 'The Kitchen, Homage to Saint Therese' 2009 

Monday Portrait: Christopher Anderson 'Son'

Monday Portrait: Girl with Beret, Lucian Freud

Painted at the beginning of the fifties - and the start of his career - the precision of Freud's 'Girl with Beret' is a world apart from the gestural style the artist later become famed for. 

Monday Portrait: Jozi by Rankin

A departure from the fashion photography for which he is known - Rankin's 2010 portrait of Jozi who the photographer met on a trip to South Africa.  

Monday Portrait: Kate Moss by Tim Walker

As Paris fashion week is getting underway... Kate Moss photographed by Tim Walker at the Paris Ritz.

Monday Portrait: Richard Artschwager

This week sculptor and painter Richard Artschwager who died this weekend. 

Table With Pink Tablecloth, 1964

Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting for the touch. 

Monday Portrait: Blank Elizabeth

This is not strictly a portrait but a product we made for the National Portrait Gallery a few years ago. It is a wipe clean memo board so you can decide how the monarch is feeling.


Image taken from an original portrait of Elizabeth I in the National Portrait Gallery collection by an unknown Netherlandish artist c. 1525.

Monday Portrait: Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz

Aside from the warm sepia tones, the colour scheme of this Monday Portrait reminds us of early January mornings in London.


Gelatin silver print, 1920.

See a later portrait of O'Keeffe taken by Ansel Adams here.

Monday Portrait: Cover girl Frida Kahlo

Not strictly a portrait but still - Frida Kahlo on the cover of Vogue Mexico's November edition.

Monday portrait: Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama with her 1963 work 'Compulsion Furniture'. Above image c/o the Saatchi Gallery.

Monday portrait: Portrait of a Man, Barthel Bruyn the Elder

Image c/o the Wellcome Collection

Portrait of a Man, Barthel Bruyn the Elder (1493-1555, Germany), oil on panel, 1533-1555.

This belated monday (thursday) portrait was inspired by a weekend trip to the Wellcome Collection's current exhibition Death: A Self-Portrait. A visit is highly recommended for the morbidly curious.