Painting The Century 101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900-2000 was an international exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery in London in 2000-2001 that exhibited a work for each year of the 20th Century. A book of the same name is published by the National Portrait Gallery by Robin Gibson with an introduction by Professor Norbert Lynton that illustrates all works exhibited.

Artists and subjects

Artists included Auerbach, Bacon, Dalí, Dix, Lucian Freud, Giacometti, Grosz, Hockney, Hodgkin, Kitaj, Kokoschka, Modigliani, Picasso, Schiele, Sickert.

The subjects included Anna Akhmatova by Kuz'ma Petrov-Vodkin, Charlie Chaplin by Fernand Leger, Edith Sitwell by Pavel Tchelitchew, Leigh Bowery by Lucian Freud, David Bowie and Iman by Stephen Finer, Lenin by Isaak Brodsky, a self-portrait by Edvard Munch, Somerset Maugham by Graham Sutherland, Elvis Presley by Andy Warhol and Warhol by Jean-Michel Basquiat.

External links

• NPG description for Painting the Century
• Painting The Century 101 Portrait Masterpieces book details ISBN 1855142899hbk; ISBN 1855143135pbk

Art exhibitions | Portrait art