Painting of a red-haired, bearded man with light skin, painted in short brushstrokes and multicolored dots. The background is likewise a mass of small, closely spaced colored dots, these in green, blue, and red-orange.

Self-Portrait

1887

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890)

Artist
Vincent van Gogh
Origin
Netherlands
Medium
Oil on artist's board, mounted on cradled panel
Dimensions
41 × 32.5 cm (16 1/8 × 12 13/16 in.); Framed: 61.6 × 53.4 × 8.9 cm (24 1/4 × 21 × 3 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Joseph Winterbotham Collection
Reference Number #
1954.326
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Painting of bedroom, blue walls, green window, tan bed, red bedding.

The Bedroom

Vincent van Gogh

Oil on canvas

1889

Lush tall grasses with small white flowers foreground a grove of bushy trees of varying types and heights, their leaves ranging from deep green to golden. Beneath a dense and heavy yellow sky, a small blue triangle suggesting a mountain peak crests above the treeline at far left.

The Poet's Garden

Vincent van Gogh

Oil on canvas

1888

Painting in tones of gray and brown, with some green and blue, of a woman digging with a garden tool before a structure with a thatched roof that descends almost to the ground. Above her the sky is gray and blue, a haze of clouds.

A Peasant Woman Digging in Front of Her Cottage

Vincent van Gogh

Oil on canvas

c. 1885

Painting of three male figures, two older men in top hats and a younger man with red hair, standing outdoors around a wooden table with a pitcher on it, drinking from glasses. A much smaller, childlike figure at left peers over the table and drinks from a white cup. The scene is rendered in winding paint strokes in shades of green and blue.

The Drinkers

Vincent van Gogh

Oil on canvas

1890

Painting in short strokes of pale blue, green, white, yellow, and pink, of a fisherman in one of two small boats on a river, a tree-lined bank and a bridge in the background.

Fishing in Spring, the Pont de Clichy (Asnières)

Vincent van Gogh

Oil on canvas

1887

A work made of oil on canvas.

Madame Roulin Rocking the Cradle (La berceuse)

Vincent van Gogh

Oil on canvas

1889