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Jeremy Mann - Nocturne. Oil on Panel, 15x15 in.
Phillip Allen. Katterfelto (studio version), 2004. Oil on board, 50 x 71 cm.
Transformation Based on Context, 2006. Oil on canvas, 48 x 72”.
Untitled (paint), 2006. Oil on canvas, 40 x 60”.
Valérie Favre. Ghost (Nº 13), 2010. Oil on canvas, 30 x 20 cm.
Franz von Stuck. Sin, 1893.
Michael Parkes
Thomas Baier. City Lines.
Paul Gauguin, Self-Portrait, 1885
“Examination of the painting under infrared light and with radiographs has revealed that Gauguin made important changes in his self-image as he developed it ever more starkly. At first he portrayed himself in profile and included reproductions of his own paintings on the background wall. Turned to confront the viewer in the final work, he shows himself left-handed, like his image in a mirror, crowded in an attic space with a slanted beam, and cold, with the lapels of his heavy jacket wrapped together. Only his piercing eye escapes the bleak atmosphere.”
Vincent van Gogh. The Prison Courtyard, 1890. Oil on canvas, 80 x 64 cm.
The State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (Музей изобразительных искусств им. А.С. Пушкина)
Van Gogh painted The Prison Courtyard while “imprisoned” himself, in the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint Rémy. He died 5 months later of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the culmination of his long struggle with physical and mental illness.
The Prison Courtyard expresses the artist’s hopelessness and despair. In the lower part of the painting, thirty-three inmates form a human corona, pacing heads down, in defeated rote and joyless resignation. In spite of the shared misery and monochrome prison garb, they are not uniformly anonymous; some faces can be deciphered, particularly the one in the center, whose blond hair is lighted by an imperceptible sun’s ray. That is van Gogh himself in what has been interpreted as a “metaphoric self-portrait”. (text writen by unknown)
