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This self-portrait is one of seven, painted one each day during a week in the summer of 1986. Once dry, the artist took them over to his early supporter and friend Dr. Herbert A. Simon's home, and spreading them out on the porch, they decided it was time to paint the older man's official portrait as one of the most distinguished professors at Carnegie Mellon University. This and several others of these self-portraits were exhibited in the artist's solo exhibition at Blue Mountain Gallery in New York City in 1986.

A reproduction of this self-portrait and one of Jewess Accused from 1965 are included in the Portuguese Wikipedia article Pintura nos Estados Unidos, a survey of 'Painting in the United States' spanning colonial times to the present, in which Rappaport, along with two older artists, is credited as an example of the persistence of expressive figurative painting during its phase of ostracism and its recuperation in the mid-1970s.1*

1, http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinture_nos-Estados_Unidos

• Pintura nos Estados Unidos, 6.3 Neo-expressionismo e Hiper-Realismo: Philip Guston, Richard Rappaport e Chaim Goldberg sao bons exemplos da persistencia da pintura figurativa expressiva durante sua fase de ostracismo e de sua recuperacao em meados dos sanos 1970.