Example sentences for: self-portrait

How can you use “self-portrait” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "I look like a dog," Edgar Degas remarked of a pastel self-portrait made when he was in his early 60s, a century ago.

  • (Monument) is a self-portrait by the South Korea-born Lee Bul, one of six finalists for the Hugo Boss Prize--a biennial competition for cutting-edge artists sponsored by the German menswear manufacturer that takes place at the Guggenheim Museum's SoHo branch.

  • Ren Xiong, a Shanghai artist who died of tuberculosis in 1857 at age 34, tries to balance Chinese tradition with the inroads of Western art in his unsettling self-portrait.

  • It is said that the artist’s agonizing self-portrait can be made out in the flayed skin of St. Bartholomew, to the right below Jesus.

  • A van Gogh self-portrait was sold for $71.


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