Sarah Lucas

Self Portrait with Fried Eggs

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About this artwork

Sarah Lucas’s portrayals of the body have a strong sense of humour and they challenge sexual stereotypes and conventional morals. In Self Portrait with Fried Eggs, Sarah Lucas looks back at the viewer with a confrontational stare. Two fried eggs have been placed over her breasts, acting as a crude parody of the female body. Lucas often explores the ways masculine and feminine qualities can co-exist in her self-portraits, questioning the gender stereotyping that exists in popular culture. The cigarettes in the lower left allude to a sense of recklessness and feature more prominently in Lucas’s iconic self-portrait Fighting Fire with Fire, also made in 1996.

Updated August 2022

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Sarah Lucas

Sarah Lucas