Anselmo Bucci is one of the most important painters represented in the museum's collections: a native of Fossombrone, he lived most of his life in Monza, where he took his first steps as a painter and where he died in 1955. The painter played a key role in the experience of Novecento Italiano, which he founded together with Dudreville, Funi, Sironi, Oppi, Malerba and Marussig but from which he left in 1929, continuing his research independently. The painting represents a mature Anselmo Bucci and fully aware of the role now assumed in the panorama of Italian art of those years: he depicts himself within a three-quarter oval, as an artist, with a determined and confident gaze. In the background, indefinite but illuminated on the left by a window, a female figure can be recognized.