Title
Self-Portrait in the Artist's StudioDate1920
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions
30.4 x 25.5 cm
Credit LinePurchased, 1982
Object numberNGI.4366
DescriptionDressed in an artist’s smock and with fashionable short cropped hair, Moyra Barry emphasises her identity as a practicing artist. Posed in her studio holding a large square palette, her quizzical gaze invites us into her world. Barry adopted the ‘New English Technique’, described by the artist Walter Sickert as ‘a method of painting with a clean and solid mosaic of thick paint in a light key’. Through the paintings and window in the background, she draws attention to her dual interests in portraiture and landscape painting.(Katie Buckley, Curatorial Fellow - Prints and Drawings, An Artist's Presence, 2025, Print Gallery)
ProvenanceThe Artist's estate; bequeathed to the Artist's family; sold to the Gorry Gallery, Dublin; purchased, The Gorry Gallery, Dublin, 1982 Exhibition HistoryMoyra Barry 1886-1960, The Gorry Gallery, Dublin, 1982
Acquisitions 1982-83, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 1983