Painting the Century 101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900-2000
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Painting The Century 101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900-2000 was an international exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery in London in 2000-2001 that exhibited a work for each year of the 20th Century. A book of the same name is published by the National Portrait Gallery by Robin Gibson with an introduction by Professor Norbert Lynton that illustrates all works exhibited.
[edit] Artists and subjects
Artists included Auerbach, Bacon, Dalí, Dix, Lucian Freud, Giacometti, Grosz, Hockney, Hodgkin, Kitaj, Kokoschka, Modigliani, Picasso, Schiele, Sickert.
The subjects included Anna Akhmatova by Kuz'ma Petrov-Vodkin, Charlie Chaplin by Fernand Leger, Edith Sitwell by Pavel Tchelitchew, Leigh Bowery by Lucian Freud, David Bowie and Iman by Stephen Finer, Lenin by Isaak Brodsky, a self-portrait by Edvard Munch, Somerset Maugham by Graham Sutherland, Elvis Presley by Andy Warhol and Warhol by Jean-Michel Basquiat.
