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Marcia Marcus, Self-Portrait, Greece

Marcia MarcusSelf-Portrait, Greece, 1980

oil on canvas

24 x 30 in

About the artist

Marcia Marcus is recognized as a singular figure in postwar American art, celebrated for her unwavering commitment to representational painting at a moment when abstraction and other movements dominated critical discourse. Across more than six decades, Marcus forged a visual language that was both exacting and expressive, drawing on the traditions of Classical and Renaissance painting while remaining acutely responsive to the social and cultural conditions of contemporary life.

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