This is the first pair of four self-portraits created by Smarkusz - as two separate but related pairs created some ten years apart. They were drawn as identical poses, with one drawn in ink (right) and the other in pencil (left). Both were done in 1940 at age 21, just a few months before enlisting in the Army Air Corp on his 22nd birthday.
This second pair of self-portraits was created as mirror images of each other, one decade later when the artist was 30. He produced them as a self-record in relation to the first pair - four years after the end of his five years service in WWII. The first is a lithographic print, and the second is an oil painting.
BACK to Figure Studies 1 gallery .....
Or .... BACK to the Family Portraits gallery .....