Portraits of Painters, part 2

 So I've been on the lookout for painter portraits for this series. This one jumped out at me:

Fernand Léger by Robert Doisneau, 1954.

This is what people have called an "environmental portrait", most often in connection with Arnold Newman (who didn't like the term). Willy Ronis referred to this as "a character in situation, the interest being distributed at the same time on the man and on the environment."

Keith Haring photographed by Annie Leibovitz, 1992. About as "environmental" as you can get!

Sam Francis by Hans Namuth, 1989

Rudy Burkhardt took this shot of Robert De Niro Sr. in his studio around 1958. It's one of the greatest artist studio portraits ever taken. I have it set as my Macbook wallpaper.

Here's a painter I don't know at all: Agathe Vaïto, in her Paris studio. She was married to the Paris art gallery owner Pierre Loeb. This superb portrait is by Denise Colomb, from 1955. 

Kay Bell Reynal's great photo of Mark Rothko in his studio in 1952.

What a lovely portrait of Constantin Brancusi in his Paris studio, by Wayne Miller, 1946.

A great, undated, portrait by Nico Coster of Paul Citroen in his studio.

Georgia O’Keeffe by Lawrence Fried. This was taken at the 1970 O'Keeffe Retrospective at the Whitney Museum.

Alexander Liberman, Agnes Martin with Level and Ladder, 1960.

Georges Braque by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1947.

David Hockney & Lucian Freud by David Dawson, 2003. From the National Portrait Gallery collection in London.

 

Freud sat for a Hockney portrait for 4 hours. Hockney sat for Freud's for 120 hours: "He paints slowly and he gossips."

Francis Bacon in his studio; a wonderful shot by Jane Bown, 1980.

Willem de Kooning in 1944; a marvellous portrait of the young painter by Ellen Auerbach.

Bridget Riley by Tony Evans, 1964.