Van Gogh revisited (8)

This is the eight in a series of Vincent van Gogh’s works that is featured as part of the works on display at the exhibition titled “Van Gogh in Paris: a Dialogue with Modernism” at Seoul Arts Center. ― ED.

Vincent van Gogh first attempted self-portraits in the spring of 1886 while studying at Cormon’s studio but did not concentrate on them till the autumn of that year in Paris. When he started painting self-portraits there, he thought the results were promising. He produced a total of 27 self-portraits during his Paris period.

In the self-portraits, Van Gogh put red hatchings and green dots in the background, which were his first experiments with the Pointillist technique.

His 1887 painting “Self-Portrait with Glass,” done with oil on canvas, from the Gemeente Museum collection, is one of them.