Self-portrait, F345Reproduction of oil painting on canvas
Van Gogh represents himself in a bust, his face slightly turned and his gaze directed towards the viewer. His red beard, green eyes and dark jacket emerge from a blue-green background dotted with red and orange dots.
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Self-portrait, F345Vincent van Gogh · Spring 1887 · Art Institute of Chicago
Spring 1887Dating
41 × 32.5 cmDimensions of the original
Oil on artist's cardboard mounted on panelOriginal technique
Art Institute of ChicagoConservation
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Look at the work
A face motionless in the center of a surface that pulsates with color
The light head occupies the top of the composition, while the triangular bust widens to the lower edge. The contours of the face remain firm, but the jacket and the background fragment into hundreds of touches.
The red and blue dots become denser around the hair and shoulders. The green eyes, placed almost on the horizontal axis of the painting, become the most stable point in the middle of this vibration.
Painted in Paris in the spring of 1887, this Self-portrait is an oil on artist's cardboard mounted on a panel measuring 41 × 32.5 cm. Work F345/JH1249 is kept at the Art Institute of Chicago under number 1954.326.
Composition, touch and color
Three observations specific to this painting
The Art Institute directly links the tight touch of this portrait to the discovery of Georges Seurat's pointillism. Van Gogh, however, transformed the optical method into personal writing, more nervous and expressive.
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The background never remains neutral
Blues, greens, reds and oranges alternate in dots and small dashes. Their density creates a vibrant depth without decoration or horizon line.
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The beard responds to blue by contrast
Reds, oranges and yellows build the hairs in separate touches. Faced with the surrounding blue-green, the lower face gains an almost luminous intensity.
03
The jacket is painted as a dark mosaic
Red brown, black, green and blue fit together in chevrons and dashes. The garment remains readable while sharing the rhythm of the background.
Documented benchmarks
Precisely identify the original work
Number 1954.326 and references F345/JH1249 identify the Chicago pointillist self-portrait. Its support is prepared cardboard, today mounted on a panel fitted with a reinforcing frame.
Paris
One of at least twenty-four Parisian self-portraits
The museum recalls that Van Gogh painted himself very often during his two years in Paris, a period when he did not always have paid models.
Seurat
A personal response to pointillism
Van Gogh adopted dots and small touches after seeing Neo-Impressionist research, but he varied their size and direction to intensify the presence of the face.
Look
Green eyes dominate the colored surface
Among the reds, blues and oranges, the two eyes remain precisely drawn. The museum presents them as the anchor of the entire composition.
The copy must preserve the severe design of the face, the green eyes, the orange beard, the blue-green range of the background and the difference in rhythm between dots, dashes and oblique touches.
The green gaze directed towards the viewer
The red beard in separate touches
The blue halo around the forehead
The red and orange dots on the bottom
The dark jacket treated in mosaic
Work sheet
Title
Self-portrait, F345
Artist
Vincent van Gogh (1853 -1890)
Date
Spring 1887
Place of creation
Paris
Original technique
Oil on artist's cardboard mounted on panel
Dimensions
41 × 32.5 cm
Inventory
F345 · JH1249 · 1954.326
Conservation
Art Institute of Chicago
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In your interior
A magnetic portrait where deep blue meets beard fire
Petrol blue, dark green, burnt orange, red and brown make up a strong presence for a contemporary office, library or living room.
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