A Lois White
Self Portrait (Nude at Easel)

Artwork Detail
A nude that was also a self-portrait was uncommon in the 1930s. Mitzie Price explained that her cousin took up the practice as she had great difficulty securing models, so ‘She used to strip in front of a mirror.’ Adding that it, ‘Probably shocked the hell out of [her Mother].’ Unlike the usually passive nude model, White takes an active role, recording herself in the act of painting. Interestingly Rita Angus also completed a number of nude self-portrait drawings about 1940. (Intimate Portraits, 2005)
- Title
- Self Portrait (Nude at Easel)
- Artist/creator
- Production date
- circa 1935
- Medium
- oil on cardboard
- Dimensions
- 495 x 400 mm
- Credit line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the Fumpston Family, 2003
- Accession no
- 2003/35
- Copyright
- Copying restrictions apply
- Department
- New Zealand Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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