Portrait of Van Gogh

Portrait of Van Gogh is a fine art portrait created by Australian artist Troy Schooneman inspired by the life and work of Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890) and, in particular, his prolific self-portraiture. In his lifetime, Van Gogh painted no less than 35 self portraits. Van Gogh often presented himself as restrained and serious in his self-portraits, with a look of concentration on his face. Nevertheless, something of his personality can be found in each self-portrait. He described the last one he did in Paris as ‘quite unkempt and sad’...something like, say, the face of – death’. That is how he felt at the time: mentally and physically exhausted. Edi...View all