Italia

An interesting oddity from Italy with a great self portrait I hadn't seen before. I don't know much more about this publication.

Summer Exhibition of self-portraits

I wish I could make it to haute-Provence for this summer show of Ronald's self-portraits in the village where he lived. The town also unveiled a memorial plaque above the front (back? -I was never sure!) door of his home.  His daughter Kate was there to represent the Searle family.

It looks like the exhibition has self-portraits from across Ronald's whole life-a testament to how long he lived! I've gathered many of them in this section.

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The artist described this medal as a 'Medal in Commemoration of a Mini-drama. No. 1 in a series of Great Classical trivialities', and added 'I feel that it is rather appropriate that there can be an occasion when a satirist can deflate himself publicly and take a little of what he likes to deal out to others!' The snake around Laocošn forms the figures '7' and '0'.

As a POW, 1943

Perhaps a self-portrait from Searle's variation on Hogarth's 'The Rake's Progress', originally published in PUNCH magazine.


Searle did not study at the Royal College of Art but this must have been based on his art school days in Cambridge.


Searle did indeed design the Chelsea Arts Club Ball.





Searle appears in the The Great Fur Opera: Annals of the Hudson's Bay Company 1670-1970

Searle & co. entering the hallowed Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.

'Portrait of the artist painting his own foot'.

One of Searle's final self portraits as he reached his 90th birthday