About this artwork
This is a beautiful and captivating image of Annie Lennox who shot to global fame in the 1980s as half of the pop-duo Eurythmics. In the 1990s she embarked on an equally successful solo-career. This photograph was used as the album cover of her third solo studio album, Bare, which was released in 2003. Lennox has said: 'The ‘posture’ of the image refers back to earlier days of Eurythmics with the Touch cover, only this time I have now turned to face the audience eye to eye, as it were. I am as ‘bare’ as the title suggests, though not entirely exposed. The image is timeless, gender free, and racially ambiguous. I could be a statue, a ghostly apparition, or an Indian saddhu. The false lashes represent the artifice of ‘performance''.
Updated before 2020
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title:Self-Portrait
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date created:2003
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measurements:50.00 x 49.50 cm (framed: 58.10 x 57.60 cm)
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credit line:Gifted by Annie Lennox 2011
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accession number:PGP 808.1
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Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox
Lennox was born and raised in Aberdeen. In the early 1970s she gained a place at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she studied flute and piano. In the early 1980s she formed Eurythmics with her partner Dave Stewart. From the release of the album 'Sweet Dreams Are Made of This', the duo...
