3-098-021 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Self-portrait, 1917. Spanish painter José Benlliure y Gil (1855-1937) is impeccably dressed, with a well-groomed beard and a full, pointed moustache. This self-portrait, made when he was sixty-two, clearly reveals in his expression and bearing the cosmopolitan, cultured, and urban man. His intense and attentive gaze reveals both the artist and the viewer, while simultaneously conveying great self-confidence. The scene is set in his Valencia studio, with a painting in an ornate frame prominently displayed in the background. The text confirms that the painting was a gift to the Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno (National Museum of Modern Art).