Portraits of Painters, part 1

Here's the first installment of my favourite portraits of painters.

Claes Oldenburg by Robert R. McElroy, 1961

In this 1966 shot of Bernard Buffet, Jean Mounicq is as interested in the light reflecting on the paint as he is in the silhouette of the painter.

An outstanding portrait by Dudley Reed of painter Emma Sergeant at work. This was for Tatler in 1984, but I haven't been able to track down the painting, and who her model might be.

Helen Frankenthaler by John Marmaras, 1972. In her studio on East Eighty Third Street, painting "What we really are, we really ought to be". Against the walls: "I Am Your Blue Mountain", "Filming", "Spirits of Wine".

Pierre Soulages by Johann Rousselot, 2014

Ad Reinhardt by John Loengard, New York, 1966

Grace Hartigan by Gordon Parks, 1957

Jean-Paul Riopelle by Yousuf Karsh, 1965

Gisèle Freund's colourful shot of Pierre Bonnard's palette. This is a C-print: resin-coated chromogenic colour print on Kodak paper.

"Purple in the greys," Bonnard wrote in Observations sur la peinture, "Vermilion red in the orange shadows, on a cold clear day."

Sam Gilliam by Anthony Barboza, 1980

Hans Hofmann by Andreas Feininger, 1957

Pablo Picasso by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1953

Jean-Michel Basquiat by Evelyn Hofer, 1985

Frida Kahlo by Nickolas Muray, 1941

Nina Leen, "The Irascibles", 1951

Front row: Theodoros Stamos, Jimmy Ernst, Barnett Newman, James Brooks, Mark Rothko; middle row: Richard Pousette-Dart, William Baziotes, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Bradley Walker Tomlin; back row: Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Ad Reinhardt, Hedda Sterne