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GOGH, Vincent van: Self-Portrait

🖼 Self-Portrait, Summer 1887, Paris
Oil on canvas
41 × 34 cm
Hartford, USA

Intense brushstrokes render a gaunt face with piercing eyes against swirling blue background, capturing psychological tension through color and gesture. Van Gogh's unflinching self-examination became foundational to modern portraiture, establishing the genre as vehicle for inner emotional truth rather than flattering likeness.

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