Stone cold sober (self portrait )
2007
oil and watercolour on linen
290 x 212 cm
Archibald Prize 2007
Collection: Russell
Crowe
'Stone cold sober takes its inspiration from French artist Yves Klein’s famous 1960 photographic portrayal of himself apparently leaping from a city building. "For me, it represents not a stunt suggestive of suicide, but an act of over-whelming optimism and faith", says Pople.