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GOGH, Vincent van: Portrait of Joseph-Michel Ginoux

🖼 Portrait of Joseph-Michel Ginoux, December 1888, Arles
Oil on canvas
64 × 52 cm
Otterlo, Netherlands

Burnt orange and deep blue swirl around a weathered face rendered with Van Gogh's signature emotional intensity. Ginoux, a local innkeeper in Arles, became one of Van Gogh's closest friends, embodying the artist's search for human connection during his turbulent years in southern France.

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E. H. Gombrich
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