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GOGH, Vincent van: Portrait of the Artist’s Mother

🖼 Portrait of the Artist’s Mother, October 1888, Arles
Oil on canvas
41 × 33 cm
Pasadena, USA

Austere profile rendered in muted greens and grays depicts an elderly woman in three-quarter view, her face marked by age and introspection. Van Gogh painted this from memory after his mother's death, transforming grief into psychological portraiture that influenced modern emotional expression in art.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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