Portrait of Vincent Van Gogh

This is Van Gogh's last portrait and one of his greatest, painted just a few months before his death.

Self-portraits are a motif that Van Gogh always returns to, as artists always return to their favorite subjects - Monet his Waterlily Pond, Cezanne his Mont Sainte-Victoire. During his lifetime, Van Gogh created more than 30 self-portraits.

Self Portrait, 1889 is both more confident and more aggressive. It was a peculiar face, almost rude and callous - as if the babysitter had tested enough of his features for signs of insanity. Deep wrinkles on the nose and cheeks, thick and prominent eyebrows, drooping corners of the mouth: this is the face of a man who has no time to be friendly. The zigzag and swirling lines that represent the background are also used for the people and the artist's clothes, and the relentless rejection of harmony and peace which these lines attest sets the main focus on the features. points on the subject's face: the need for distortion and rework has created a new disorder in his psychophysiology. The face was not too crude or angry but full of life, a sense of the present moment. The painter and custodian are one and the same person, it is not necessary (as it were) for the model to stay still. The photo is neither a pretty pose nor an actual recording; rather, the face that Van Gogh here is putting on the canvas is one that has seen too much danger, too much disturbance, to be able to control his agitation and trembling. In fact, it was not an unfriendly face. This portrait speaks of vitality. And the approach is clearly incapable of creating the ideal.

Adjusted price: $93.5 Million | Original price: $71.5 Million