Self-Portrait

Kane's 1929 Self-Portrait is considered one of the artist's masterpieces. The portrait is both a shockingly realistic depiction of the male body—veins, chest hair, and all—and an object meant for decorative display, with a frame indicated around the image edges and painted arches defining the figure's head. Kane produced most of his work in a concentrated period of time—the last seven years of his life.

Credit: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund