In his 2006 introduction for Francesco Clemente’s exhibition, author Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) wrote, “The self-portrait is the interrogation of what the artist knows best, but it is also the most polymorphous of forms, emphasizing continuity or change, surface or depth, mask or skull.” Such dualisms are present in this color woodcut, produced by Clemente during his residency at San Francisco’s Crown Point Press. He applied bursts of color to the sheet, rendering his self-portrait both realistic and surrealistic.