Mike Parr (born 1945)

Untitled self-portrait #7, 1989

from the ‘12 Untitled self portraits (set 1)’ series

drypoint etching on paper

106.0 x 78.0 cm
131.0 x 101.5 cm (frame)

edition: 6/8
signed and dated lower right: Mike Parr / 1989
numbered and inscribed lower left: 6/8 #7

City Gallery, Melbourne
The Estate of Felicity St John Moore, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 1989

Mike Parr, Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney, 27 June – 15 July 1989 (another example)
Drawings from the Self Portrait Project, 1983 –1990, City Gallery, Melbourne, October 1989
I think of drypoint in terms of braille and excavation: Prints by Mike Parr, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 31 March – 29 April 1990, cat. 12 (another example, illus. in exhibition catalogue)
Australian prints from the Gallery’s collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 November 1998 – 7 February 1999 (another example)
Contemporary Australian prints from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 3 April – 6 June 2004, cat. 39 (another example)
The Naked Face: Self-portraits, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 3 December 2010 – 27 February 2011 (another example)

Other editions of this print are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney