Sentence examples for paintings himself from inspiring English sources

Because he sold the paintings himself, he did not have to share money with an agent.

The French artist went on to patent his own unique shade of blue in 1961 and moved away from creating the paintings himself, instead directing naked models covered in the colour as they walked, rolled and sprawled on blank canvases.

He took photographs of paintings – of himself, solid and dark, among a group of shadowy painted self-portraits, of the painting of The Sick Child, of himself in bed, one in the series of fateful beds.

Two paintings of himself hung on the walls.

Mr. Greenwold has since moved on to smaller, darker and more introspective paintings of himself and his friends and family.

Close is known for great, big paintings of himself, made up of gridded diamond shapes framing bright, amoebae-like squiggles.

His rare, unflinching paintings of himself and his second wife Patricia Preece in the nude, have gone down especially well in America.

An ex-lover of New York Yankees baseball player Alex Rodriguez accused him of having two paintings of himself as a centaur (half man, half horse).

But have Lowell's paintings — of himself as Richard III, as the Wife of Bath, etc. — really been painted by his embittered ex-wife Jenny?

Given the mythology already at work here, Mr. Janas's habit of naming the paintings for himself suggests a play on Janus, the two-faced Roman god who gave us "Janus-faced," meaning hypocritical or deceitful.

Ms. Cowling had just read a biography of Picasso and noticed a passage in which he suggested that someone should put together a show of pre-1914 paintings by himself and Matisse.