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GOGH, Vincent van: Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear

🖼 Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, January 1889, Arles
Oil on canvas
60 × 49 cm
London, United Kingdom

Bandaged and raw, Van Gogh stares frontally with haunted eyes, rendered in swirling impasto against a warm interior. This self-portrait documents his mental crisis and ear mutilation, becoming an icon of artistic suffering and psychological vulnerability in modern art.

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