Autoportrait
1971
Felt-tip pen, pencil, gouache on cut paper and glued on metallic paper. Frame design by the artist.
26 x 23 1/4 in
In Autoportrait (1971), she is bare-chested and framed by an abundant head of hair. Axell, who was well-aware of the ambiguities and dangers of sexual freedom, is simultaneously subject, object, artist and woman in the same painting.
The work was first presented by the Pinault Collection in the exhibition « Forever Sixties » at the Couvent des Jacobins in Rennes (2023).
Exhibitions
©ARS NEW YORK 2012
Courtesy of Broadway 1602, New York
Photo Credit: for reproduction with black frame: Broadway 1602, without black frame: Paul Louis
Evelyne Axell © Adagp, Paris 2023
Evelyne Axell
Autoportrait, 1971
