Student Artwork Guide
Copyright This work is still under copyright. Margit Anna died in 1991; copyright lasts 70 years after the artist’s death, so it remains in force until 2061. The image is shown here for classroom reference; rights remain with the rights holder.
In context
Self-portrait — Margit Anna
Row above: the years. Row below: how old the artist was at the start and at the end of each span — 0 at birth, 78 at death.
Shaded: the lifetime of Margit Anna (1913–1991) every dated painting, decade by decade
This record has no exact year on file — using the artist's lifetime and the work's style, what decade would you guess?
Pick one work above: name two things it shares with this one, and one thing that's different.
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Measured from the image
Main colour
Espresso #4c4448
Catalogued palette
These colours inside the artist’s whole palette Find other paintings by colour
The ten leading countries
Find the three darkest countries on the map. Is the museum that keeps this painting in any of them? Write down one reason people far away might look at it.
Together these works take 100.0% of all the attention this artist's paintings received over the last twelve months. The catalogue holds 56 works by this artist, of which 9 were looked at at least once. This painting has not been looked at yet in that time — it closes the list without a rank. The same counts, month by month
Bars measure attention, not quality. Pick the work at the top and this one: name one thing that might make a painting famous beyond how well it is painted.
Artist and museum
Born in Borota, Hungary
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Look closely
Self-portrait — Margit Anna
Answer in your own words. There are no wrong answers here — only answers you can explain.
Write a short paragraph about this artwork. Use the facts from the earlier parts of this guide, and your answers above.
"Self-portrait" can be examined layer by layer on the artwork's X-Ray page, a viewer inspired by a conservator's light bench with eleven optical readings of the image.
"Self-portrait" was created by Margit Anna. The information on this page describes Margit Anna's original work.
Artworks similar to "Self-portrait" by Margit Anna are gathered on the artwork's Similars page.