Self Portrait 1943

  

oil on canvas 65.0 x 43.0 cm

    
      This portrait, begun when he was 15, demonstrates Williams' early technical confidence, but reveals the artist's strangely dispassionate approach to portraiture. Williams consistently painted figures without sentimentalising them; even when he treated his painting subjects conventionally, his portraiture remained emotionally indifferent and he did not delve into the psychological make-up of his sitters.    
             

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