Vincent van Gogh: Self-Portrait at Norton Museum of Art (West Palm Beach, USA)
Vincent van Gogh: Self-Portrait
Norton Museum of Art
September 4, 2010 – February 8, 2011
The present Self-Portrait is one of the very last of no fewer than 36 which Van Gogh executed between his arrival in Paris and his suicide at the asylum in Saint-Rémy in July 1890. It seems to have been executed in a single sitting without later retouching. Van Gogh depicted himself at work, dressed in an artist’s smock with a palette and brushes in hand; he looks over his left shoulder (as if at the viewer) with an aspect of intense seriousness and self-scrutiny.