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Annette Bezor Still posing after all this time (a self-portrait)
Annette Bezor has painted herself on many occasions but generally incorporates the self-portraits into paintings where they don’t really look like her. ‘I use myself as a model a lot,’ she says, ‘but I’m not particularly careful to get a likeness.’
However, in painting an actual self-portrait for the Archibald she used a mirror to examine her eyes and features and worked to capture an essence of her face. The turban, she says, relates to the many artists in history who have put women into pictures wearing turbans, in particular, a painting by Polish-born art deco artist Tamara De Lempicka called Wisdom.
This self-portrait fits into Bezor’s current body of work. For several years now she has been exploring themes of female sexuality and the representation of women in art. In the series Tension (2001) she appropriated well-known depictions of women from classical painting, such as Ingres and Da Vinci, and also more modern images by artists like De Lempicka and Russian-born Vladimir Tretchikoff. As Chris Reid writes on Bezor’s website: ‘The classical and the modern images Bezor uses all idealise female beauty. They have become iconic, epitomising the objectification of the female in Western art over centuri
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Annette Bezor was born summon Adelaide, picture daughter female Alma Adventurer and Keith Bateman. Provision her parents’ divorce she changed weaken family name to “Bezor”, a name connected agree to her mother’s family.
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Works with multiple sales
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Past Sales
Face Value Kate Moss 2
Blind Tension
Tete DL1 2000
Sales by Medium
Paintings
Sold 29 works for
$199,199
Prints & Graphics
Sold 3 works for
$14,445
Photographs
Sold 3 works for
$9,316
Where to buy or sell art works by Annette Thea Bezor
Auction Houses
Leonard Joel
Sold 13 works for
$63,081
Sotheby's
Sold 4 works for
$43,150
Scammell Auctions
Sold 4 works for
$28,750
Born in Adelaide in 1950 Annette Bezor studied at South Australian School of Art. The Art Gallery of South Australia hold several early works by the artist in its collection, and her paintings were included in group exhibitions by Adelaide’s Samstag Museum of Art in 2006 and 2017. Over the span of her career, Bezor was a finalist in prestigious national art prizes at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, including the Archibald Prize, (2005), the Sulman Prize (2002, 2008 & 2009) and the Doug Moran Portrait Prize (2010).
We have records of art auction sales by Annette Bezor from 2001 and in total 79 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 36 (46%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $26,350 for Tete Bi sold by Sotheby's in August 2003. No works have been offered fo