Self-portrait (Yo Picasso) depicts the Spanish artist and sculptor at the age of 30, looking directly at the viewer while painting by candlelight.The piece is displayed alongside a 1969 self-portrait by Francis Bacon and works by Geoff Koons and Damien Hirst.
The Self exhibition runs until December 13th at the Ordovas Gallery.
Bacon’s self-portrait, one of his first studies of a single head, has not been publicly exhibited in London for almost 50 years.
Koons’ contribution, dating from 1991, comprises a white marble bust atop a base of crystalline shapes.
The exhibition also includes Hirst’s With Dead Head, a photograph of the British artist in 1992 posing with the head of a corpse.
According to gallery owner Pilar Ordovas, it was Hirst who suggested the exhibition’s title and that Koons be invited to participate.
