Topless Angelina Jolie After Her Double Mastectomy Portrait To Be Sold At Auction

A controversial Swedish artist has painted a topless portrait of Angelina Jolie after he recent double mastectomy operation.

Johan Andersson unveiled the painting yesterday, after he was inspired to create the piece once he heard about Jolie’s surgery in February. The actress went through the procedure after learning that she carried the same gene that lead to her mother Marcheline Bertrand’s ovarian cancer. Bertrand succumbed to the disease in 2007.

Andersson put the painting on display in a Los Angeles art gallery and is expected to sell for around $25,000.

Anderson has been talking about his inspiration behind the project, citing his own mother’s battle with breast cancer as one of the main reasons he took on the piece.

He remarked, “My mother had aggressive breast cancer when I was 15, the thought of her having to have a mastectomy really scared me and she was fortunate enough to have surgery without the mastectomy.”

Anderson went on to add, “The recent news about Angelina stirred an anxiety within me leading me to paint this portrait. There is an underlying awkwardness in her demeanour in juxtaposition to the natural beauty of her face.”

Anderson is the youngest artist to ever be exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, and is renowned for his posthumous portrait of Amy Winehouse, as well as his picture of the ex-Libyan dictator, Muammar Gaddaffi.

The Daily Mail has stated that proceeds from the sale of the painting will go to the Falling Whistles charity that campaigns for peace in the Congo. This is a cause that Angelina Jolie is extremely passionate about herself.

It is now believed that the 37-year-old Jolie, who is married to Brad Pitt, will now have an operation to have her ovaries removed, which will help to keep her raised of developing ovarian cancer down.

What do you think of Anderson’s portrait of Angelina Jolie? Is it too soon?