Tamar Bresge
Portrait of the Artist Without the Artist
Painting
2020
The artist placed in the painter’s memory and image, oil on linen, maps of Florence and Canada on A4 paper, ink
No sittings / 50.5 cm x 70.5 cm x 2 cm
The tenth portrait in the collection, and the only portrait for which I did not sit. I asked my painter to paint me from memory, to paint me through his eye. To fully submit a manifestation of myself to someone else's conception of my likeness and my self. My only instructions were to paint me without looking at me, and to place me how he'd like to place me. Commissioned October 7, 2019 / Opened January 2, 2020.Between Florence, Italy, and Toronto, Canada