Self-portrait

We must consider this portrait as of high emblematic value. Although the painter would make several other self-portraits throughout his life, none of them would be completed. The painter’s capacity for this genre is clear in this work, although what interests us most are its peculiar characteristics, ranging from the allusion to modernism, which is manifested here in the decorative strip that runs horizontally from side to side across the canvas, passing behind the personage and, above all, in the reference, more or less clear, to the models that Rodríguez-Acosta would choose for almost all his portraits: Gustav Klimt, Emilio Boldini and John Singer Sargent. / Extracted from: Revilla Uceda, M. A.: José María Rodríguez-Acosta 1878-1941. Granada, 1992, p. 256.