Provenance

H.P. Bremmer

Bremmer, Hendricus Petrus

Dutch, 1871 - 1956

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Shown from the chest up, a man with short, orange hair and green-tinted, pale skin looks at us, wearing a vivid blue painter's smock in this vertical portrait painting. His smock and the background are painted with long, mostly parallel strokes of cobalt, azure, and lapis blue. His shoulders are angled to our left, and he looks at us from the corners of his blue eyes. He has a long, slightly bumped nose, and his lips are closed within a full, rust-orange beard. He holds a palette and paintbrushes in his left hand, in the lower left corner of the canvas. The background is painted with long brushstrokes that follow the contours of his head and torso to create an aura-like effect.
Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait, 1889, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, 1998.74.5

Self-Portrait

Vincent van Gogh · 1889 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1998.74.5

Vincent van Gogh, Man Polishing a Boot, 1882, graphite and gray and black wash, heightened with white watercolor on wove paper, squared lightly with graphite, The Armand Hammer Collection, 1991.217.68

Man Polishing a Boot

Vincent van Gogh · 1882 · graphite and gray and black wash, heightened with white watercolor on wove paper, squared lightly with graphite ·  Accession ID  1991.217.68

Bibliography

2006

  • Balk, Hildelies. De Kunstpaus: H.P. Bremmer 1871-1956. Bossum, 2006.