Self-portrait

Mediums: oil, sand board.
Location: National Portrait Gallery, London (the UK).

The half-length self-portrait refers to the period when the artist had utterly departed from the angularity of Vorticism. The images of her paintings underwent a radical change – the palette became light and warm, the outlines of objects were thin, flying, in some places even dotted. The faces of the characters (most of them are women) are exaggeratedly large, and their mood is often sad. This is because the role of women in the formation of the British avant-garde was hushed up. The author depicted herself with a book at a table in a room, where paintings hang on the walls. The general peach-brown gamma contrasts with a blue background and a blue shawl expressively placed on the model’s shoulder.