- Artist
- Ivan Meštrovic 1883–1962
- Medium
- Plaster
- Dimensions
- Object: 498 × 229 × 235 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the artist 1918
- Reference
- N03284
Catalogue entry
Ivan Meštrovic 1883-1962
N03284 Portrait of the Artist 1915
Not inscribed
Plaster, 19 5/8 x 9 x 9 1/4 (50 x 23 x 23.5)
Presented by the artist 1918
Exh: [? Serbo-Croatian Artists. Meštrovic-Racki-Rosandic, Grafton Gallery, London, December 1917 (55) as 'The Artist's Portrait in plaster']; Sculpture by Meštrovic, Twenty One Gallery, London, May-June 1919 (3A, repr.); Yugoslav Exhibition, RA, London, January-February 1944 (55)
Lit: Sir John Lavery, M. Curcin and others, Ivan Meštrovic: A Monograph (London 1919), No. 224, p.65
Repr: René Huyghe (ed.), Larousse Encyclopedia of Modern Art (London 1965), pl.1085
Executed in London during the artist's first visit to this country. It does not seem to have been cast in bronze.
Published in:
Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.511-12, reproduced p.511