Selbstporträt mit Pinsel (2013); Maria Lassnig (Austrian, 1919 - 2014).
In 2013, she would complete her final piece, Selbstporträt mit Pinsel (Selfportrait with Brush). Her gaunt face looks down at us through a sea of white paper, her left arm (a few meandering strokes on the page) cuts through the blankness with a lazily sketched fist raised high above her head. Charged with tense energy, the artist seems to have caught the moment just in time—stilling herself before her ghostly brush could hit the canvas once more.















