Van Gogh's Self-Portraits
Almost everything else we know about his appearance comes from the many self-portraits he painted. No fewer than 35 of them are known. They tell us that he had red hair, green eyes and an angular face. Yet each of those faces is different. Vincent himself wrote:
We know Van Gogh’s face from his self-portraits, but how did his ...
Feb 18, 2022 · Although they date from only a four-year period, 1886-89, it is surprising quite how much his appearance varies in them. Many viewers today, if shown one of the lesser-known self-portraits without...
Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait, 1889 - National Gallery of Art
Vincent van Gogh is instantly recognizable by his reddish hair and beard, his gaunt features, and intense gaze. Van Gogh painted some 36 self-portraits in the space of only ten years. Perhaps only Rembrandt produced more, and his career spanned decades.
Portraits of Vincent van Gogh - Wikipedia
Van Gogh's dozens of self-portraits were an important part of his œuvre as a painter. Most probably, van Gogh's self-portraits are depicting the face as it appeared in the mirror he used to reproduce his face, i.e. his right side in the image is in reality the left side of his face.
Vincent van Gogh Self-Portrait, Painted During Bout of Psychosis ...
Jan 21, 2020 · The result was his August 1889 self-portrait, a gloomy, uncharacteristically drab oil painting depicting his suited torso and gaunt, unsmiling face, barely cloaked beneath his beard.
Hidden van Gogh Self-Portrait Discovered During a Routine X-Ray
Jul 15, 2022 · Conservators at the National Galleries of Scotland were taking an X-ray of Vincent van Gogh ’s Head of a Peasant Woman when, to their surprise, they found the piercing gaze of the artist...
Van Gogh self-portrait is genuine, experts decide - BBC News
Jan 21, 2020 · A brooding self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh has finally been declared genuine after years of uncertainty. Art experts have identified Self Portrait (1889) as the only work painted by the Dutch...
X-Ray Appears to Reveal New Van Gogh Self-Portrait, Experts Say
Jul 14, 2022 · AMSTERDAM — There were 35 known self-portraits of Vincent van Gogh in the world. That appears to have changed this week. “To that number, we can add now another picture,” Louis van...
Van Gogh hidden self-portrait has been discovered in Scotland ... - NPR
Jul 14, 2022 · As it prepared for an exhibit, the National Galleries of Scotland found a previously unknown self-portrait by Vincent Van Gogh, covered by glue and cardboard, on the back of another of his...
Self-Portrait - Vincent van Gogh — Google Arts & Culture
While the pose itself and the intense scrutiny of the artist's gaze are hardly unique—one need but think of the occasionally uncompromising self–portraits of Rembrandt—the haunting and haunted...