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GOGH, Vincent van: Portrait of Trabuc, Attendant at St Paul Hospital

🖼 Portrait of Trabuc, Attendant at St Paul Hospital, September 1889, Saint-Rémy
Oil on canvas
61 × 46 cm
Bern, Switzerland

Intense brushstrokes and vivid greens render a psychiatric hospital attendant with psychological intensity, his gaze piercing from a simplified background. Van Gogh painted Trabuc during his St-Paul asylum stay, transforming a mundane portrait into existential portraiture reflecting his own mental struggles.

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E. H. Gombrich
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