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Banksy, Portrait of an Artist, 1998.
Oil on canvas, 100 × 141 cm. Stencilled signature lower left.
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"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."
- Banksy
Created in 1995, Portrait of an Artist is a unique spray-paint and acrylic on canvas measuring 65 by 50 cm. The composition shows a suited painter at his easel, brush in hand, working from a nude model. Yet the model is not human but a cartoonish, alien-like figure set against a backdrop of red curtains. Banksy contrasts the bizarre form of the sitter with the idealised human figure reproduced on the easel, highlighting the artist’s ability to twist visual expectation into satire. As one of his earliest canvases made for sale, the piece demonstrates Banksy’s early command of irony, parody, and traditional art-historical references. -
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