Self Portrait I
- Artist:
- Type: Painting
- Medium: Watercolour
- Production Date: 1981
- Description: When this self portrait was painted, times were hard. Bellany was divorced from Helen (his first wife and mother of his three children) and had married Juliet Gray in 1979, but her struggles with mental illness coupled with his own alcoholism meant that they lived the majority of their married life separated. This portrait, with its greys and yellows, with its reddened eyelids and listless stare, portrays the artist as gaunt and ill. He was only 39 but appears much older. The mood of quiet melancholy foreshadows Bellany's brush with death later in the1980s.
- Dimensions: Framed: 107.5cm (H) x 85.5cm (W)
Unframed: 74 cm (H) x 55 cm (W) - Acquisition Note: Scottish Arts Council Bequest
- Digital Copy:A digital copy exists.
- Location: Store
- Related Material: AC/AF/B/3
- Related Material: AC/OF/1998/1
- Accession Number: 1998.1
- Contact: University of Stirling Art Collection
