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Astonishing and gripping: Van Gogh's Self Portraits at the Courtauld reviewed

12 February 2022

9:00 AM

12 February 2022

9:00 AM

Van Gogh. Self-Portraits

Courtauld Gallery, until 8 May

In September 1889, Vincent van Gogh sent his brother Theo a new self-portrait from the mental hospital at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. ‘You must look at it for some time,’ he instructed, then ‘you’ll see, I hope, that my physiognomy has grown much calmer, although the gaze may be vaguer than before, so it appears to me.

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