Part of the National Gallery of Art's permanent collection, you can take home a reproduction of Van Gogh's Self-Portrait (1889) for your own gallery in this 11 x 14" print, matted with an eggshell-white mount.
During the first months of his voluntary internment at the asylum of Saint–Paul–de–Mausole in Saint–Rémy, the Vincent van Gogh showed little interest in figure painting and concentrated instead upon the surrounding landscape. But in early July 1889 while painting in the fields near the asylum, Van Gogh suffered a severe breakdown that could have been a symptom of epilepsy. Incapacitated for five weeks and greatly unnerved by the experience, the artist retreated to his studio, refusing to go out even to the garden. This painting is the first work he produced after recovering from that episode.
This self–portrait is a particularly bold painting, apparently executed in a single sitting without later retouching. Here Van Gogh portrayed himself at work, dressed in his artist's smock with his palette and brushes in hand, a guise he had already adopted in two earlier self–portraits. 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 quality of the image is distinct.
Part of the National Gallery of Art's permanent collection, you can take home a reproduction of Van Gogh's Self-Portrait (1889) for your own gallery in this 11 x 14" print, matted with an eggshell-white mount.
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| Description | During the first months of his voluntary internment at the asylum of Saint–Paul–de–Mausole in Saint–Rémy, the Vincent van Gogh showed little interest in figure painting and concentrated instead upon the surrounding landscape. But in early July 1889 while painting in the fields near the asylum, Van Gogh suffered a severe breakdown that could have been a symptom of epilepsy. Incapacitated for five weeks and greatly unnerved by the experience, the artist retreated to his studio, refusing to go out even to the garden. This painting is the first work he produced after recovering from that episode. This self–portrait is a particularly bold painting, apparently executed in a single sitting without later retouching. Here Van Gogh portrayed himself at work, dressed in his artist's smock with his palette and brushes in hand, a guise he had already adopted in two earlier self–portraits. 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 quality of the image is distinct. Part of the National Gallery of Art's permanent collection, you can take home a reproduction of Van Gogh's Self-Portrait (1889) for your own gallery in this 11 x 14" print, matted with an eggshell-white mount.
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