Man of the House — artwork #10042 by Guido Van Helten · Reykjavík, Iceland
graffiti face monochrome photorealism large-scale elderly-man
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Guido van Helten was born in 1986 in Brisbane, Australia. After practising graffiti in his youth in Melbourne, he studied visual arts at Southern Cross University in Lismore, New South Wales, majoring in printmaking. He turned to large-scale muralism professionally in 2012, developing an immediately recognisable style: monumental photorealistic portraits, executed with aerosol on raw, often corrod…
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Added 20/04/2026
Monumental photorealistic portrait of an elderly man, spray-painted on the gable of a house at the corner of Seljavegur and Vesturgata in Reykjavík. The mural depicts the grandfather of the building's owner — the man who built the house — painted from a family photograph. Created in 2013 during an artistic residency in Iceland, this grey-and-ochre mural is one of the most recognisable works in Reykjavík's street art scene.
The artwork Portrait du grand-père de Seljavegur is of type graffiti. You can admire it in the city of Reykjavík in Iceland, more precisely here: Seljavegur & Vesturgata, 101 Reykjavík.
This graffiti is also tagged as: face, monochrome, photorealism, large-scale, elderly-man.
Find all artworks by the artists who contributed to its creation by clicking on their name: Guido Van Helten
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