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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits

 

            In the most limited definition of the term, Impressionism as the objective study of light did not encourage so essentially a subjective study as the self-portrati but in the later expansion of the movement this self-representation was given renewed force by Cézanne and Van Gogh.  The latter has often been compared with Rembrandt in the number and expressiveness of his self-portraits but while Rembrandt’s were distributed through a lifetime, Van Gogh produced some thirty in all in the short space of five years—from the end of the Brabant period (1885) to the last year of his life at St. Rémy and Auvers.  (Vincent 1)

 

            Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin

                  1888 (130 Kb); Oil on canvas, 60.5 x 49.4 cm (23 ¾ x 19 in);

                                    Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

 

 

 

 

 

             Self-Portrait in front of the Easel

                    1888 (200 Kb); 65 x 50.5 cm

 

 

 

 

Works Cited

 

Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits.  [Online] Available

 

            http://sunsite.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/gogh/self/, April 6, 1998.

 

Van Gogh, Vincent.  Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin. [Online] Available

 

            http://sunsite.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/gogh/self/gogh.self-gauguin.jpg, April 6, 1998.

 

Van Gogh, Vincent.  Self-Portrait in front of the Easel.  [Online] Available

 

            http://sunsite,unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/gogh/self/gogh.self-easel.jpg, April 6, 1998.