Shop art print and framed art Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe by Vincent van Gogh

On 23 December 1888, in his studio in Arles, Van Gogh tried to injure Paul Gauguin before cutting off his ear with a barber's knife. Van Gogh quickly recovered and painted his self-portrait, the area around his left ear covered by a bandage around his face. As he used a mirror and did not correct the effect, in his self-portraits the sides appear reversed, the right being in fact the left and the left being in fact the right. For Gauguin, this new attack of madness marked the end of their collaboration in their "southern studio", which they intended to form in Arles. Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear or Man with a Pipe is an oil painting on canvas by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, painted in Arles in January 1889. The painting came into the possession of the Niarchos family and was subsequently exhibited at the LVMH foundation, owned by Bernard Arnault. In the close-up, his face is slightly three-quartered, with his head turned to the right (actually the left). He is wearing a thick jacket, a worn cap and a bandage around his face. He is smoking a pipe (the smoke is materialised). The painting gives an impression of resignation but also of appeasement. His features are tense, his jaw is clenched and his gaze is lost in the distance. Van Gogh is 35 but looks older. The face, which is the dominant element, occupies the centre of the canvas"; the eyes are level with the line that divides the painting into two parts. The background is plain and two-tone, with a red stripe and [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the post-impressionism style.

 

« Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe » is kept at Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland.

 

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