Eyüboglu, Bedri Rahmi
Motif Rouge, 1960
A close look at Motif Rouge reveals it to be a self-portrait, recognizable from the artist’s curly hair and dark eyes; the contours of his face evoke the pebbles he painted on some of his “blue journeys.” During the 1960s, he made many self-portraits and also pursued new directions in saturated color, texture, and abstraction.