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GOGH, Vincent van: Portrait of Père Tanguy

🖼 Portrait of Père Tanguy, Winter 1887/88, Paris
Oil on canvas
65 × 51 cm

Rendered in bold yellows and blues, an elderly man sits frontally against a patterned backdrop of Japanese prints. Van Gogh's dealer-friend becomes a bridge between Western and Eastern art, his calm presence anchoring the artist's experimental Post-Impressionist style.

The story of art
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E. H. Gombrich
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