Self-Portrait last sold at auction in November 2021. Its estimated value was between A$10–$15,000, but it sold for a staggering $73,636 – likely the highest-selling of all Josephine’s artworks.
In the auction catalogue, art writer and researcher Andrew Gaynor said it ‘shows Muntz Adams as she wanted to be seen – active, industrious and, above all, creative’.1
Josephine would have been in her mid-30s when it was painted.
It was shown as part of Josephine’s retrospective exhibition at the Athenaeum Gallery in 1943.
Image courtesy of Deutscher and Hackett.
