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Raoul Hynckes
Self-Portrait, 1928
The Belgium-born artist Raoul Hynckes started out as an Impressionist. He later definitively switched to Realism and in the meantime, he practised his own form of Cubism , as in this potent self-portrait. The shades of brown suggest – wrongly – that he used a traditional underpainting for the comp
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osition. Hynckes uses the same method to emphasise creases in the skin and the drab orange jacket. He painted the floorboards in a different perspective to the self-portrait, which creates the peculiar three-dimensional effect.
Text: Chris Reinewald
From: Museum MORE: 100 jaar realisme, 2020, Gorssel
Artist
Raoul Hynckes
Title
Self-Portrait
Year
1928
Technique
Oil on canvas
Size
65.8 x 60.5 cm (h x w)
Type of object
Painting
Copyright
Uknown
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