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The injury left her with a permanent limp, creating an open invitation for every art historian and critic to psychologize her paintings as disguised self-portraits of suffering.—Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026 Stern said the artwork will be the first self-portrait he's ever created.—Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026 Some spiders are out here making self-portraits for survival.—New Atlas, 21 Dec. 2025 The goal of those short asides and carefully seeded comments is to allow Nanjiani to outline a self-portrait.—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for self-portrait