Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
ARTIST ROOMS
National Heritage Memorial Fund
Art Fund
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/robert-mapplethorpe-11413" aria-label="More by Robert Mapplethorpe" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Robert Mapplethorpe</a>
Self Portrait
ARTIST ROOMS
Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008
actions: expressive
actions: postures and motions
adults
arts and entertainment
attacking
body
clothing and personal items
dagger / knife
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
hair
hand / hands raised
jacket
man
Mapplethorpe, Robert
named individuals
objects
people
photographer
photographic
portraits
self-portraits
weapons
work and occupations
paper print photograph gelatin silver
25 September 2010 – 21 November 2010
2010-11-21
25 September 2010 – 21 November 2010
2010-11-21
2010-09-25
Towner (Eastbourne, UK)
http://www.townereastbourne.org.uk/
2010-09-25
ARTIST ROOMS 2010: Robert Mapplethorpe
Loan-out
31 October 2015 – 16 October 2016
2016-10-16
31 October 2015 – 31 January 2016
2016-01-31
2015-10-31
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe, Germany)
26 March 2016 – 26 June 2016
2016-06-26
2016-03-26
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (Lyon, France)
16 July 2016 – 16 October 2016
2016-10-16
2016-07-16
Scottish National Portrait Gallery (Edinburgh, UK)
2015-10-31
Artist Self-Portraits
Loan-out
Self Portrait
support: 476 × 375 mm
frame: 817 × 690 × 27 mm
<a href="/search?gid=999999788" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">ARTIST ROOMS</a>
Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the <a href="/search?gid=999999967" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">National Heritage Memorial Fund</a> and the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 2008
<p>As in most of his self-portraits Mapplethorpe presents himself playing a role – here that of the stealthy and rather reticent knife-stabber. He holds his hand out with the knife as if about to deliver a thrust, but his other hand is held up in a mixture of horror and surprise and his face looks more anxious than determined.</p>

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2009-04-16T00:00:00
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ONLINE_CAPTION
actions: expressive actions: postures and motions adults arts and entertainment attacking body clothing and personal items dagger / knife emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities hair hand / hands raised jacket man Mapplethorpe, Robert named individuals objects people photographer photographic portraits self-portraits weapons work and occupations