Baldies
March 26 2012
Picture: RA/National Gallery of Victoria
A number of you have been in touch to suggest bald painters, following my post on the strange hair replacement advert at The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht. I asked for names of painters who were brave enough to portray themselves as bald. A reader writes:
V. few it seems, but - if we give Leonardo the benefit of the doubt - Matisse, Cezanne, Hokusai and Edward Lear do.
Other names suggested include Thomas Lawrence (above left), possibly Joseph Highmore (above right). Someone should write a thesis on this.
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