Frank Auerbach - Head of J.Y.M. II - 1984/85
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Georg Baselitz - Idol - 1964
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Francis Bacon - Head of a Man - 1959
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Pablo Picasso - Head of a Woman (Dora Maar) - 1939
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Frank Auerbach - Head of Stephen Finer - 1973-74
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Giacometti - Dark Head - 1957
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Alberto Giacometti's portraits of his younger brother Diego. 1961
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Frank Auerbach - Head of Debbie Ratcliff II - 1983/84
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Richard Diebenkorn - Portrait of N.S. - 1957
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Henri Matisse - Portrait de Madame Matisse - 1905
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Fayum mummy Portrait of a boy, with a golden pendant.
Mummy Portraits of Egypt
painted between roughly 50 BCE and 250 CE
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Young boy, identified by inscription as Eutyches, Egyptian mummy portrait dating to the Roman Period, 2nd century C.E., encaustic on wood
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Another Egyptian mummy portrait of a boy, painted between 50 BCE and 250 CE. This looks so amazingly modern.
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Pendant is, most likely, some kind of amulet. Roman boys also wore disk shaped amulets, known as 'bulla', until the age of 16 or so. The use of amulets is still common in many cultures.

