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GAUGUIN, Paul: Self-Portrait with Palette

🖼 Self-Portrait with Palette, 1893-94
Oil on canvas
92 × 73 cm

Intense and penetrating, the artist gazes directly outward while holding his palette, rendered in bold color against a shadowed background. This self-portrait challenged conventional vanity by presenting the painter as a working intellectual, reflecting modernist ideals of artistic authenticity and creative authority.

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E. H. Gombrich
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