Self-portrait without beard

Self-portrait without beard
Artist	Vincent van Gogh
Year	1889
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	65 cm× 54 cm(26 in× 21 in)

Self-portrait without beard is an 1889 oil on canvas painting by the Post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. The picture, which may have been Van Gogh's last self-portrait, was painted in September that year. The self-portrait is one of the most expensive paintings of all time, selling for $71.5 million in 1998 in New York City. At the time, it was the third (or an inflation-adjusted fourth) most expensive painting ever sold.

Art historians are divided as to whether this painting or the 1889 self-portrait in the Musée d'Orsay is Van Gogh's final self-portrait. Ronald Pickvance considered this to be the last, whilst Ingo F. Walther and Jan Hulsker think Self-portrait was the later painting. It was given by van Gogh to his mother as a birthday gift.

Sources

• Beckett, Wendy (1994), The Story of Painting, The Essential Guide to the History of Western Art , Dorling Kidersley, ISBN   978-0751301335
• Denvir, Bernard (1994). Vincent: The Complete Self-Portraits . Philadelphia, PA: Running Press. ISBN   978-0-7624-0094-2.
• Pickvance, Ronald (1986). Van Gogh in Saint-Rémy and Auvers . New York: Abrams. ISBN   0-87099-477-8.
• Walther, Ingo; Metzger, Rainer (2000). Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings. Cologne: Taschen. ISBN   978-3-8228-1215-0.
• Walther, Ingo (2000). Van Gogh . Cologne: Taschen. ISBN   978-3-8228-6322-0.

See also

• Self-portraiture
• List of works by Vincent van Gogh
• Art movement
• Impressionists
• Paul Gauguin