Artwork Title: Self Portrait
...The steady waning of the art market from the late 1920s and mounting debts incurred due to Cadell’s lavish lifestyle saw him move home three times in the last decade of his life. As his personal circumstances and health declined so his official standing grew as he was elected a member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolor in 1935 and the Royal Scottish Academy in 1936. He died in Edinburgh in 1937. The present painting is the ‘strongest’ and most self-assured self-portrait that Cadell ever painted. The unflinching treatment of his own features in the present picture stands in contrast to the more demure and flattering self-portraits of his youth. This picture was probably painted during the summer of 1932 while he was staying on Iona. A sketch of the coast on Iona is on the reverse of the panel, along with the inscription ‘Myself – Iona – 1932’. https://www.piano-nobile.com/artists/1164-francis-campbell-boileau-cadell/works/1197/
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