Color in "Self Portrait" (1889) by Vincent van Gogh

Portrait of a bearded man holding artist paint brushes.

Coloring page reproduction of Vincent van Gogh, Self Portrait, 1889. This is an auto-generated image.

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

Vincent van Gogh painted 36 self-portraits. This was one of his last. Made at the asylum of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole in Saint-Rémy, where the artist was recovering from a severe breakdown, it is intense in every way. The swirling brushstrokes around his head are dynamic, the blues and violets of his smock are electric, and his narrowed gaze is unwavering. The artist’s bright orange hair and rust-colored beard accentuate his sallow skin and add to his gaunt appearance. Still working despite his illness, Van Gogh keeps a tight grip on his brushes and palette.

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