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And Man Created God in His Own Image, Ivan Albright, 1930, Art Institute of Chicago: American Art

Gift of Ivan Albright Size: 121.9 × 66 cm (48 × 26 in.) Medium: Oil on canvas

Self-Portrait (No. 1), Ivan Albright, 1981, Art Institute of Chicago: Arts of the Americas

Gift of Mrs. Ivan Albright Size: 33 × 23.5 cm (3 × 9 1/2 in.) Medium: Oil and charcoal on hardboard

Dorian Gray, Ivan Albright, 1945, Art Institute of Chicago: Arts of the Americas

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro Size: 41.9 × 7.6 cm (16 1/2 × 3 in.) Medium: Gouache on silk

Self-Portrait (No. 3), Ivan Albright, 1981, Art Institute of Chicago: American Art

In 1981 Albright began a series of drawn and painted self-portraits at the invitation of the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, which for four centuries has collected other significant examples of this motif. For the next two years, ending with his death in 1983, the artist, energized by this great honor, created around 24 small self-portraits in various media, a series that constitutes a summation of his vision and technical prowess. Gift of Mrs. Ivan Albright Size: 30.5 × 25.4 cm (12 × 10 in.) Medium: Oil on hardboard

Picture of Dorian Gray, Ivan Albright, 1943, Art Institute of Chicago: American Art

Ivan Albright painted this lurid portrait for the Oscar-winning movie adaptation of Oscar Wilde's 1891 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. In Wilde's tale, Dorian Gray commissions a portrait of himself as an attractive young man and later trades his soul for an ever-youthful appearance. As the still-handsome Gray leads an increasingly dissolute and evil life, his painted representation rots and decays, revealing the extent of his moral corruption. Albright's renown as a painter of the macabre made him the ideal choice of Albert Lewin, the director of the movie, to paint the horrific image of Gray. Although the movie was shot in black and white, Lewin filmed the painted portrait in color to emphasize Gray's shocking transformation. Gift of Ivan Albright Size: 215.9 × 106.7 cm (85 × 42 in.) Medium: Oil on canvas

Dorian Gray, Ivan Albright, 1945, Art Institute of Chicago: American Art

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro Size: 41.9 × 7.6 cm (16 1/2 × 3 in.) Medium: Gouache on silk

Self-Portrait (No. 18), Ivan Albright, 1983, Art Institute of Chicago: Arts of the Americas

Gift of Mrs. Ivan Albright Size: 30.5 × 25.4 cm (12 × 10 in.) Medium: Colored pencil on hardboard