Self-portraits by Vincent van Gogh Totally Explained

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Vincent van Gogh created many self-portraits during his lifetime. Most probably, Van Gogh's self portraits are depicting the face as it appeared in the mirror he used to reproduce his face, for example his right side in the image is in reality the left side of his face.

Paris

The first self-portrait by Van Gogh that survived, is dated 1886. Image:Vincent Willem van Gogh 108.jpg|March/April 1887 (F 296)
Oil on pasteboard, 19 × 14 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Image:VanGogh_1887_Selbstbildnis.jpg|Spring 1887 (F 345)
Oil on pasteboard, 42 × 33,7 cm
Art Institute of Chicago Image:Vincent Willem van Gogh 110.jpg|Summer 1887 (F 524)
Oil on pasteboard, 42 × 31 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Image:Van Gogh Self-Portrait Autumn 1887.jpg|Autumn 1887 (F 320)
Oil on canvas, 47 × 35 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris Image:Vincent Willem van Gogh 107.jpg|Winter 1887-1888 (F 344)
Oil on canvas, 44 × 37,5 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Image:VanGogh-self-portait-as an artist.jpg|January 1888 (F 522)
Oil on canvas, 65 × 50,5 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Arles

Image:VanGogh-self-portrait-dedicated to gaugin.jpg|Self-portrait dedicated to Paul Gauguin, September 1888 (F 476)
Oil on canvas, 62 × 52 cm
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA Image:Vincent Willem van Gogh 106.jpg|Self-portrait with bandaged ear, January 1889 (F 529)
Oil on canvas, 51 × 45 cm
Private collection Image:VanGogh-self-portrait-with bandaged ear.jpg|Self-portrait with bandaged ear, easel and Japanese print, January 1889 (F 527)
Oil on canvas, 60 × 49 cm
Courtauld Institute Galleries, London

Saint-Rémy

All Self-Portraits executed in Saint-Rémy show the artist's head from the left, for example the side with ear not mutilated. Image:Vincent Willem van Gogh 102.jpg|Self-portrait without beard, September 1889 (F 525)
Oil on canvas, 40 × 31 cm
Private collection Image:Vincent Willem van Gogh 109.jpg|August 1889 (F 626)
Oil on canvas, 57 × 43,5 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Image:SelbstPortrait VG2.jpg|September 1889 (F 627)
Oil on canvas, 65 × 54 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris Van Gogh painted Self-Portrait without beard just after he'd shaved himself. The self-portrait is one of the most expensive paintings of all time, selling for $71.5 million in 1998 in New York. At the time, it was the third (or an inflation-adjusted fourth) most expensive painting ever sold.

Auvers-sur-Oise

No self-portraits were executed by Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise, during the final weeks of his life.

Fakes

Almost at the same time, when his Catalogue raisonné was published, Jacob Baart de la Faille had to admit that he'd included paintings emerging from dubious sources, and of dubious quality. Little later, in 1930, De la Faille rejected some thirty odd paintings, which he'd originally included in his Catalogue raisonné - together with a hundred of others he'd already excluded: Self-portraits - and Sunflowers - held a prominent place in the set he now rejected. In 1970, the editor's of De la Faille's posthumous manuscript brand marked most of these dubious Self-portraits as forgeries, but couldn't settle all disputes, at least on one:

The Selfportrait 'a l'éstampe japonais', then in the collection of William Goetz, Los Angeles, was included, though all editors refused its authenticity.

Meanwhile, the authenticity of a second "self-portrait" has been challenged:

The Selfportrait, 'à l'oreille mutilé', acquired in 1910 for the Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo, has been unanimously rejected by recent scholars and technical researchers since decades, until provenance research by staff members now reported pro domo the contrary. The debate is on-going.

Resources

Due to the considerable number of self-portraits by Van Gogh's, for a valid identification reference is to the numbers of Jacob Baart de la Faille's Catalogue raisonné (1928 & 1970) (F) or to Jan Hulsker's updated compilation (1978, revised 1989) (JH). ==

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