Self-Portrait

This self-portrait by Renato Guttuso belongs to a new season of his production, rich of stimuli and characterised by a strong and profound emphasis on colours. After having returned to Milan, the Sicilian master made a shift in his viewpoint: from a close-up, oblique perspective, he takes on the traditional pose of a ‘gloomy’ person, face in hand, a scorn cigarette hanging idly from his mouth, his gaze piercing and intense.