Vincent van Gogh Drawing

Vincent van Gogh selfportrait infront of The Starry Night, (June 1889. Museum of Modern Art, New York) and Irises,(May 1889. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles) ,Vase with Irises Against a Yellow Background,(May 1890, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam). Van Gogh created more than 43 self-portraits between 1885 and 1889. They were usually completed in series, such as those painted in Paris in mid-1887, and continued until shortly before his death. Generally the portraits were studies, created during periods when he was reluctant to mix with others or when he lacked models and painted himsel. Van Gogh's self-portraits reflect a high degree of self-scrutiny.Often they were intended to mark important periods in his life; for example, the mid-1887 Paris series were painted at the point where he became aware of Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Signac. In Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat, heavy strains of paint spread outwards across the canvas. It is one of his most renowned self-portraits of that period, "with its highly organized rhythmic brushstrokes, and the novel halo derived from the Neo-impressionist repertoire was what Van Gogh himself called a 'purposeful' canvas.