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Self with Notebook

Series TitleDaily doodles, 2001-2023

Artist Gonkar Gyatso (Tibetan, born 1961)

DateApril 20, 2021

MediumPencil, ink, stickers, paper cut-out on fine art paper

DimensionsFramed: 13 1/4 × 11 7/8 × 2 inches (33.66 × 30.16 × 5.08 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust through the generosity of the Foyer Foundation and the George H. and Elizabeth O. Davis Fund

Object number2025.29.5

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DescriptionThis is a self-portrait of the artist, who is facing the viewer but staring off into the distance. He is dressed casually, wearing a pair of yellow-tinted glasses and a large, blue hoop earring in his right ear. He has stubble, and his hair is unkempt. He is surrounded by the essential things in his life. These include (listed from left to right, top to bottom) the face of his son, Noah; a yellow sunhat, a facemask, a yellow snake that is meant to represent a beautiful woman trying to provoke him, a reusable water bottle, and his sketch book.

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