{"data":{"id":80607,"api_model":"artworks","api_link":"https:\/\/api.artic.edu\/api\/v1\/artworks\/80607","is_boosted":true,"title":"Self-Portrait","alt_titles":null,"thumbnail":{"lqip":"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBAAFAPQAAD49PEA3NEA6OUY\/OEw+OzpAO09EPFZFO1dGPDxGQEBIQ0ZMRU9PRVFNRV9MQmxUQmJZSnttWIdfSaGHaQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAAAAAAALAAAAAAEAAUAAAURoMJAQBFNQ\/JIwoI4QUMYRwgAOw==","width":6116,"height":7794,"alt_text":"Painting of a red-haired, bearded man with light skin, painted in short brushstrokes and multicolored dots. The background is likewise a mass of small, closely spaced colored dots, these in green, blue, and red-orange."},"main_reference_number":"1954.326","has_not_been_viewed_much":false,"boost_rank":null,"date_start":1887,"date_end":1887,"date_display":"1887","date_qualifier_title":"","date_qualifier_id":null,"artist_display":"Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853\u20131890)","place_of_origin":"Netherlands","description":"<p>In 1886 Vincent van Gogh left his native Holland and settled in Paris, where his beloved brother Theo was a dealer in paintings. Van Gogh was apparently inspired by the energy of the city and by his introduction to Impressionism, and he created at least twenty-four self-portraits during his two-year stay in the French capital.<\/p>\n<p>This early example is modest in size and was painted on prepared artist\u2019s board rather than canvas. Its densely dabbed brushwork, which became a hallmark of Van Gogh\u2019s style, re\ufb02ects the artist\u2019s response to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/artists\/40810\/georges-seurat\">Georges Seurat\u2019s<\/a> revolutionary pointillist technique in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/artworks\/27992\/a-sunday-on-la-grande-jatte-1884\"><em>A Sunday on La Grande Jatte\u20141884<\/em><\/a>. What was for Seurat a method based on the cool objectivity of science became in Van Gogh\u2019s hands an intense emotional language. The surface of the painting dances with particles of color\u2014intense greens, blues, reds, and oranges. Dominating this dazzling array of staccato dots and dashes are the artist\u2019s deep green eyes and the intensity of their gaze. \u201cI prefer painting people\u2019s eyes to cathedrals,\u201d Van Gogh once wrote to Theo. \u201cHowever solemn and imposing the latter may be\u2014a human soul, be it that of a poor streetwalker, is more interesting to me.\u201d From Paris, Van Gogh traveled to the southern town of Arles for fifteen months. At the time of his death, in 1890, he had actively pursued his art for only five years.<\/p>\n<p>Van Gogh\u2019s career as a painter was actually very brief. From Paris, he traveled to the southern town of Arles for \ufb01 ft een months. At the time of his death, in 1890, he had actively pursued his art for just \ufb01ve years.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of thirty-five works that comprise the Winterbotham Collection. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/the-winterbotham-collection\">Click here to learn more about the collection.<\/a><\/p>\n","short_description":"Van Gogh\u2019s face is as well known as his art\u2014in fact, it is inseparable from it. The artist painted more than 35 self-portraits over his lifetime. This one was created in Paris under the influence of Seurat and pointillism. The intense dabs of paint and color, anchored by his eyes, create a turbulent energy, giving the viewer a deep sense of the artist\u2019s presence.","dimensions":"41 \u00d7 32.5 cm (16 1\/8 \u00d7 12 13\/16 in.); Framed: 61.6 \u00d7 53.4 \u00d7 8.9 cm (24 1\/4 \u00d7 21 \u00d7 3 1\/2 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":32,"height":41,"diameter":null,"clarification":null},{"depth":8,"width":53,"height":61,"diameter":null,"clarification":"Framed"}],"medium_display":"Oil on artist's board, mounted on cradled panel","inscriptions":null,"credit_line":"Joseph Winterbotham Collection","catalogue_display":"<p>Faille, de la F345 1970<\/p>","publication_history":"J[acob]-B[aart] de la Faille, L'\u0153uvre de Vincent van Gogh, Catalogue raisonn\u00e9 vol. 1-2 (Paris: G. Van Oest, 1928), vol. 1, cat. no. 345; vol. 2, fig. 345.\n\nMartha Davidson, \u201cImpressionist and Later Portraits,\u201d Art News 36, no. 23 (1938): 24, 10 (ill.).\n\nJack Levin, \u201cHomage to Vincent,\u201d Art News 17, no. 8 (1948): 26 (ill.).\n\nKatharina Bromig-Kolleritz von Novisancz, \u201cDie Selbstbildnisse Vincent van Gogh: Versuh einer kunsthistorischen Erfassung der Darstellungen\u201d (PhD diss., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t, Munich, 1954), 46\u201348, 101\u2013102.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1954\u20131955 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1955), n.p. (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1956), 36.\n\nAbraham Marie Hammacher, Van Gogh Self-Portraits, exh. cat. (London: Merlborough Fine Arts Gallery, 1960), fig. d.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 181\u201382, 331 (ill.).\n\nFrank Th. Gribling,  A Detailed Catalogue with Full Documentation of 272 Works by Vincent van Gogh Belonging to the Collection of the State Museum Kr\u00f6ller-M\u00fcller (Otterlo: Kr\u00f6ller-M\u00fcller Museum, 1966), under no. 198.\n\nAbraham Marie Hammacher, Genius and Disaster: The Ten Creative Years of Vincent van Gogh (New York: H. N. Abrams, 1968), 37 (ill.), 183.\n\nFritz Erpel, Die Selbstbildnisse Vincent van Goghs (Berlin: Henschelverlag und Gesellschaft, 1963), no. 22 (ill.); English trans. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1969, no. 22 (ill.).\n\nJacob-Baart de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh, His Paintings and Drawings (New York: Reynal, 1970), 162-63, 165 (ill.) F345.\n\nBogomila Welsh-Ovcharov, Vincent Van Gogh: His Paris Period 1886-1888 (Utrecht: Editions Victorine, 1976), 225.\n\nVincent van Gogh: Paintings and Drawings From the Collection of the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam, exh. cat. (London: Hayward Gallery, 1986), under no. 91.\n\nJohn Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London: Thames and Hudson, 1977), 94 (ill.).\n\nPaolo Lecaldano, L'opera pittorica completa di Van Gogh e i suoi nessi grafici vol. 1: Da Etten a Parigi (Milan: Rizzoli, 1977), no. 369.\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, 100 Masterpieces (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), no. 70 (ill.).\n\nJan Hulsker, The Complete van Gogh, Paintings, Drawings, Sketches (New York: H.N. Abrams, 1980), 278, 279 (ill.), no. 1249.\n\nRobert H. Pelfrey and Mary Hall-Pelfrey, Art and Mass Media (New York: Harper & Row, 1985), 182-3, fig. 7.22.\n\nSusan Alyson Stein, ed., Van Gogh: A Retrospective (New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1986), 15 (ill.).\n\nPeter C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America (Washington, D.C.: Netherlands-American Amity Trust; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986), 54.\n\nRichard R. Brettell, Post-Impressionists (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1987), 8 (ill.), 9.\n\nWalter Feilchendeldt, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cassirer, Berlin: the reception of Van Gogh in Germany from 1901 to 1914 (Zwolle: Van Gogh Museum, 1988), 89 (ill.), 149, 150, 157.\n\nJ. D. McClatchy, ed., Poets and Painters: Essays on the Art of Painting by Twentieth-Century Poets (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), ill.\n\nRonald Picavance, \u201cVan Gogh en het pointillisme,\u201d in Ellen Wardwell Lee, Neo-Impressionisten: Seurat tot Srtuycken, exh. cat. (Zwolle: Waanders, 1988), 94 (ill.).  \n\nJames N. Wood and Katherine C. Lee, Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1988), 63 (ill.).\n\nPascal Bonafoux, Van Gogh (Chene: Profils de l'art, 1989), 52-3, ill.\n\nHans Bronkhorst, Vincent van Gogh (New York: Portland House, 1990), 27, 29 (ill.).\n\n\u201cSpecial Advertising Section,\u201d Life (May 1991): np. (ill.).\n\nCarol Zemel, Vincent van Gogh (New York: Rizzoli, 1993), fig. 1.\n\nBernard Denvir, A Complete Portrait: All of Vincent van Gogh\u2019s Self-Portraits, With Excerpts From His Writings (Philadelphia: Running Press, 1994), 34 ill. \n\nMargherita Andreotti, \u201cThe Joseph Witerbotham Collection,\u201d in Museum Studies 20, no. 2 (1994): covr ill., 122-23 (ill.).\n\nUwe M. Schneede and Christoph Heinrich, Van Gogh: Die Pariser Selbstbildnisse, exh. cat. (Hamburg: Hamburger Kunsthalle; Stuttgart: Hatje, 1995), 128, no. 10.\n\nCarol Zemel, Van Gogh\u2019s Progress: Utopia, Modernity, and Late-Nineteenth-Century Art (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 146-47 (ill.).\n\nNaomi Margolis Maurer, The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998), 58, pl. 94.\n\nGeorge T. M. Schackelford, Vincent van Gogh: the Painter and the Portrait (New York: Universe Publishing,  2000), 22, pl. 18.\n\nPatrick Shaw Cable, Questions of Work, Class, Gender and Style in the Art and Life of Gustave Caillebotte PhD. diss. (Case Western Reserve University, 2000), p. 114, 311, fig. 67.\n\nChris Stolwijk and Han Veenenbos, The Account Book of Theo van Gogh and Jo van Gogh-Bonger (Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum; Leiden: Primavera Pers, 2002), 11 (ill.), 54, 130, 169 (ill.).\n\nWalter Feilchenfeldt, \u201cBy Appointment Only\u201d: Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel: C\u00e9zanne und Van Gogh (W\u00e4ndeswil am Z\u00fcrichsee, 2005), 114 (ill.).\n\nAraxie Toutghalian, Le N\u00e9o-Imoressionnisme de Seurat \u00e1 Paul Klee, Exh. cat. (R\u00e9union des Mus\u00e9es Nationaux, 2005), 284, ill. 285. \n\nGloria Groom and Douglas Druick, eds., The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 57, 122\u201323 (ill.).\n\nWalter Feilchendeldt, Vincent van Gogh: The years in France, Complete paintings 1886-1890. Dealers, collectors, exhibitions, provenance (London: Philip Wilson, 2013), 43 (ill.)\n\nGloria Groom, Van Gogh's Bedrooms, Exh. Cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University Press, 2016), 21, plate 8.\n\nKaren Serres, ed., Van Goh: Self-Portraits, exh. cat. (London: Paul Holberton, 2022), 29 (detail ill.),  43, 92-93 cat. 5, 143 fig. 10.\n\nBregje Gerritse and Jacquelyn N. Coutre, Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: Along the Seine, exh. cat. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023), 67 fig. 29, 68, 198.\n\nJames Rondeau, ed., Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the collection (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2025), 93 (ill.).","exhibition_history":"Cologne, Sonderbund Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und K\u00fcnstler, Internationale Kunstausstellung des Sonderbundes Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und K\u00fcnstler zu C\u00f6ln 1912, May 25\u2013Sep. 30, 1912, cat. 11.\n\nBerlin, Galerie Paul Cassirer, 10. Ausstellung, May\u2013June 1914, cat. 28.\n\nFrankfurt-am-Main, Galerie M. Goldschmidt, Vincent van Gogh, Mar. 15\u2013Apr. 15, 1928, cat. 18.\n\nBerlin, Galerie Paul Cassirer, Vincent van Gogh: Gem\u00e4lde, Jan. 1928, cat. 29.\n\nAmsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Vincent van Gogh en zijn Tijdgenooten, Sep. 6\u2013Nov. 2, 1930,  cat. 25, ill. frontispiece.\n\nAmsterdam, E. J. van Wisselingh and Co., Exposition d\u2019art fran\u00e7aise: Peinture du XIXme et Xxme si\u00e8cle, Jan. 7\u2013Feb. 4, 1933, cat. 13.\n\nAmsterdam, E. J. van Wisselingh and Co., Zomer Tentoonstelling van Hollandsche en Fransche Schilderkunst der XIXe en Xxe eeuw, July\u2013Aug. 1933, cat. 32.\n\nNew York, Museum of Modern Art, Vincent van Gogh, Nov. 5, 1935\u2013Jan. 5, 1936, cat. 20.\n\nNew York, Wildenstein and Co., Great Portraits from Impressionism to Modernism: a Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Public Education Association, Mar. 1\u201329, 1938, cat. 45.\n\nBoston, Museum of Fine Arts, Art in New England: Paintings, Drawings, Prints From Private Collections in New England, June 9\u2013Sep. 10, 1939, cat. 53.\n\nNew York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, French Painting From David to Toulouse-Lautrec: Loans From French and American Museums and Collections, Feb. 6\u2013Mar. 26, 1941, cat. 64A.\n\nNew York, Wildenstein and Co., The Art and Life of Vincent van Gogh: Loan Exhibition in Aid of American and Dutch War Relief, Oct. 6\u2013Nov. 7, 1943, cat. 22.\n\nCleveland, Museum of Art, Works by Vincent van Gogh, Nov. 3\u2013Dec. 12, 1948, cat. 4.\n\nChicago, Art Institute, Great French Painting: An Exhibition in Memory of Chauncey McCormick, Jan. 20\u2013Feb. 20, 1955, cat. 20.\n\nChicago, Art Institute, European Portraits 1600\u20131900 in The Art Institute of Chicago, July 8\u2013Sep. 11, 1978, cat. 20.\n\nParis, Musee d'Orsay, Vincent Van Gogh \u00e0 Paris, Feb. 2-May 15, 1988, cat. 37.\n\nDetroit Institute of Art, Van Gogh: Face to Face, Mar. 12-June 4, 2000, cat. 92; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, July 2-Sep. 24, 2000; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Oct. 22, 2000-Jan. 14, 2001.\n\nArt Institute, Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South, Sep. 22, 2001-Jan. 13, 2002, cat. 19; Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Feb. 9-June 2, 2002.\n\nToledo Museum of Art, Van Gogh: Fields, Feb. 23-May 18, 2003, cat. 1.\n\nParis, Mus\u00e9e d'Orsay, Le N\u00e9o-Impressionnisme de Seurat \u00e1 Paul Klee, Mar. 14- July 10, 2005. \n\nFort Worth, TX, Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29\u2013Nov. 2, 2008, cat. 57.\n\nCologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, 1912 \u2013 Mission Moderne: Die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes, Aug. 31\u2013 Dec. 30, 2012, cat. 3.\n\nIndianapolis Museum of Art, The Faces of Neo-Impressionism, June 13\u2013Sep. 7, 2014.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Van Gogh's Bedrooms, Feb. 14 - May 10, 2016, no cat. no., plate 8.\n\nFrankfurt, Stadel Museum, Making Van Gogh, Oct. 23, 2019-Feb. 16, 2020, cat. 1.\n\nLondon, Courtauld Institute of Art, Van Gogh: Self-Portraits, Feb. 3-May 8, 2022, cat. 5.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape, May 14-Sep. 4, 2023, fig. 29; Amsterdam, Van gogh Museum, Van Gogh Along the Seine, Oct. 13-Jan. 14, 2024 [Chicago only].","provenance_text":"The artist\u2019s sister-in-law, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger (died 1925), Amsterdam [this and the following according to Van Gogh-Bonger\u2019s account book: \"19\/2 2-1912 'Kunstverein Frankfurt portret' 2942.50 [guilders]\" and \"95\/15 2-1912 'ontvangen uit Frankfort Kunstverein voor portret' 2942.50 [guilders];\" reproduced in Stolwijk and Veenenbos 2002, 54, 130]; sold through Frankfurter Kunstverein to Leonhard Tietz (died 1914), Cologne, Feb. 1912; by descent to his son, Alfred Tietz, Cologne, 1914 [Amsterdam 1930]; sold to E. 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