Example sentences for: self-portraits

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

  • In the Musée du Séminaire, 9 rue de l’Universite, you’ll find a portrait of the crusty old bishop painted in 1672 by Brother Luc, as well as landscapes by Joseph Légaré and self-portraits by Antoine Plamondon and Théophile Hamel.

  • Then, in the enigmatic self-portraits grouped in the final room of the MoMA show, Bonnard is suddenly fully there, though back-lit and shadowed in the bathroom mirror.

  • He asks us to focus our attention instead on three major clusters of Bonnard's work: bathroom scenes of Bonnard's wife, Marthe, undressing, primping, or toweling herself off; scenes of Marthe submerged full-length in a bathtub; and self-portraits of Bonnard peering at himself in the bathroom mirror.

  • In (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris), one of a suite of self-portraits, Degas' devoted housekeeper and cook looms above his penseur pose, her head the top of a pyramid, like a muse figure or a protective guardian.

  • Two of the very late self-portraits have the wartime blackout curtains pulled aside, as though Bonnard is exposed in more ways than one.


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