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Van Gogh: Self-Portrait with Straw Hat, 1887
Oil on Canvas on Pasteboard, 42 X 30 cm
Photo: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
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The brushstrokes in this sketchy portrait are free and loose, barely touching each other. The light, sunny colors and the broad-brimmed straw hat have often led to the assumption that it was painted in Arles. It was in fact created during a Parisian winter, not long before his departure to the sunlit south. |
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