Iris Murdoch's Previously Hidden Artworks, Including Self-Portrait, to Be Exhibited

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14 August 2026 at 1:06 pm

Iris Murdoch's Previously Hidden Artworks, Including Self-Portrait, to Be Exhibited

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Newly discovered artworks by Booker prize-winning author Iris Murdoch, including her only known self-portrait, four surrealist landscape paintings, and three sketches of female nudes, will be displayed for the first time. These pieces, created during her time as an Oxford student at the start of the Second World War, were found in a secret attic room and reveal her early interest in surrealism and the female form.

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