GOGH, Vincent van
(b. 1853, Groot Zundert, d. 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise)
GOGH, Vincent van (b. 1853, Groot Zundert, d. 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise) |
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Self-PortraitSeptember 1889, Saint-RémyOil on canvas, 51 x 45 cm Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo | |
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Catalogue numbers: F 528, JH 1780. Restricted to motifs selected from within the asylum, van Gogh began a series of portraits. He did six of them at Saint-Rémy, and they stand out as isolated yet imposing achievements of the art of portrait painting. Three of the six (F 626, 528, 627) are self-portrait. The other portraits are the Portrait of Trabuc (F 629), Portrait of a Patient (F 703), the Portrait of a Young Peasant (F 531). The present self-portrait is the most distorted, cruel and merciless of them all. Van Gogh looks worn and emaciated, it is a face like the potato faces of Dutch peasants, though one wholly lacking in rustic naivety. | |
