Self-Portrait

“We end up knowing everything and nothing. So it is that artist’s self-portraits, whether intended as disclosure or as concealment, remain as fictional as their other work… Andy Warhol’s self-portraits constantly shift back and forth between telling us all and telling us nothing about the artist, who can seem, even in the same work, both vulnerable and invulnerable, both superficial and profound” (R. Rosenblum, ‘Andy Warhol’s Disguises’ in Andy Warhol, Self Portraits, exh. cat., St. Gallen Kunstverein Kunstmuseum, 2004).