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Portrait of Betty Curnow  1942	Wystan Curnow  1942	Wystan Curnow  1941
Mother and child (Jean and Anton Jones)  1942	Joyce Milligan  1941	Timmy  1952
Mother and child  1945	Portrait of Douglas Angus  1940	Quentin Angus  1942-44
Portrait of Fred Jones  circa 1940	Self-portrait  circa 1944	Self-portrait at Clifton  circa 1945
Self-portrait (grisaille)  1941	Self-portrait (nude, seated)  circa 1942	Study for carving torso (nude self portrait)  circa 1942
Grisaille nude self-portrait (standing)  1942	Self-portrait (with moth and caterpillar)  1943	Self-portrait (with leaves)  1945
Self-portrait  1947

Self-portrait

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Rita Angus began many self-portraits during the 1940s – an unsettled time both personally and politically. Sometimes, she left them unfinished.

Here, she has carefully painted her head and shoulders but left her body lightly sketched in – a transparent web of pencil lines. In works like this, she seems to play with the very idea of self-portraiture, as if she might suddenly fade from view.