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Van Gogh's Self portrait                                     

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Van Gogh's Self portrait                                     

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Self portrait 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 portrait, was painted in September that year, shortly before he left Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in southern France.  Van Gogh sent the picture to his younger brother, the art dealer Theo; an accompanying letter read: "You will need to study [the picture] for a time. I hope you will notice that my facial expressions have become much calmer, although my eyes have the same insecure look as before, or so it appears to me."

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Self portrait oil on canvas painting by the post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh.Another self-portrait from the same year(1889), often called the Oslo self-portrait This painting, with the artist looking sideways, was painted while the artist was in the asylum in Saint-Rémy and is "unmistakeably" his work. The experts believe it was painted after the artist's letter of 22 August 1889 which indicated that he was still "disturbed" but ready to begin painting again but completed prior to his letter of 20 September 20, 1889. In the latter, Van Gogh referred to the self-portrait as "an attempt from when I was ill".

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Self portrait oil on canvas painting by the post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh.

This self-portrait was one of about 30 van Gogh produced over a 10-year period, and these were an important part of his work as a painter;he would paint himself because he often lacked the money to pay for models.He took the painting with him to Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, where he showed it to Dr Paul Gachet, who thought it was "absolutely fanatical".