A steady green-eyed gaze amid radiating dashes of blue

A close, half-length figure looks directly out with pale green eyes, above a groomed auburn moustache and beard. Short reddish-blond hair frames a high, pale forehead. The jacket is teal-green worked in short dashes of orange, red and blue, over a pale blue-collared shirt. Behind him a warm beige ground is filled with radiating short blue strokes. Painted in Paris in 1887, one of the many self-portraits Van Gogh made there.

Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) painted for barely ten years and produced some 2,100 works, most of them in the last two. After early dark canvases of Dutch peasant life he moved to Paris in 1886, absorbed Impressionism and Japanese prints, and in Arles and Saint-Rémy arrived at the thick, directional brushwork and saturated colour that carry his sunflowers, cypresses and night skies. He sold almost nothing in his lifetime. His paintings are held by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Musée d'Orsay and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Printed as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in FSC-certified wood with optional float glass, or unframed. Ships worldwide with free delivery to 30+ countries.