How to Use self-portrait in a Sentence

self-portrait

noun

• The dining table is the shape of a spread-eagled body, with a self-portrait of Falapishi at the head.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
• That’s a self-portrait that has long been fatuous in the extreme.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• The artwork featured a drawing of the mom of two and a self-portrait of Stormi.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024
• This self-portrait showed up at a flea market in Vanves, a suburb of Paris, in 2010.
  — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
• One of Tendler’s haunting self-portraits serves as the book’s cover.
  — Eliza Brooke, Architectural Digest, 10 Aug. 2024
• The piece is like a self-portrait in the negative, a death foretold in his absence.
  — Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
• The self-portrait details RuPaul’s journey to global fame and how he’s changed the way the world sees drag.
  — Christopher Murray, Fox News, 28 Nov. 2024
• At Hitler's house, Miller stripped naked and got in the bathtub setting up a self-portrait of her washing.
  — Esther Zuckerman, TIME, 27 Sep. 2024
• As an artist, Kusama also uses the starchy vegetable as a stand-in for self-portraits.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2024
• Her first of many self-portraits was completed that first year.
  — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 13 Mar. 2023
• Tuck the hand inside, as Ceruti also did in his own self-portrait as a Catholic pilgrim, painted around the same time.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
• On the cover is a self-portrait of Wolfe looking possessed, with slots of empty white where her pupils should be.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2024
• There’s a self-portrait that shows Peter Hujar mid-leap.
  — Benjamin Moser, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
• Painted on a used canvas, the self-portrait shows Cornish in his younger years with a thoughtful gaze.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
• The collection includes self-portraits, but no details have yet been shared about the sale.
  — The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 27 Sep. 2024
• Stéphane Rolland thought Caillebotte’s self-portrait, which opens the display, set the tone for the rest of the exhibition.
  — Joelle Diderich, WWD, 5 Nov. 2024
• And she is credited with painting the first nude self-portrait by a woman.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
• In other words, Freud’s portrait of his son includes a self-portrait.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
• The class was called The Art of Self Portraiture and went into detail about how to take pro-worthy self-portraits.
  — Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 10 Mar. 2023
• To Sean, the image was a self-portrait, summing up how Lennon saw Ono’s influence.
  — Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 28 Nov. 2024
• And while these are self-portraits, the intention wasn’t for people to recognize me in the images.
  — Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 29 Nov. 2024
• There will also be pop-up events and a self-portrait studio as part of the festivities.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
• While there are self-portraits, there’s also more abstract paintings in your work.
  — Jim Ryan, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• Behind her was an oil painting of a young woman in tears, a self-portrait by her dinner partner, the artist Inès Longevial, 32.
  — Julia Sherman, New York Times, 6 July 2023
• One of the self-portraits on view is by Anya Paintsil, a contemporary artist who draws on her Welsh and Ghanaian heritage.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2024
• Through self-portraits with her hosts from all over the world, Natcha explores how travel can turn strangers into lifelong friends.
  — Skye Battles, WIRED, 24 Dec. 2024
• Because Bar Scene and the new self-portrait are on the same canvas, gallery staffers will have to rotate the painting throughout the exhibition, per the Guardian.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2024
• And there’s more: Since her self-portrait assemblage is suspended in space, its back is as visible as the front.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• The photo was taken in 2018 and is a self-portrait of Escobedo wearing the sombrero of his grandfather, Miguel López.
  — Alejandro MacIel, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
• There are more pictures like the self-portrait: stylish couples on dates, businessmen in taxis, a beauty-pageant contestant onstage.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 4 Mar 2025