Vincent van Gogh "Self- Portrait"

From: Neue Galerie Limited Edition: 25 Exhibition: Van Gogh and Expressionism Material: Printed vinyl Dimensions: 35" x 96" (88 x 243cm) Hanging Hardware Included Summary Upon his release from the hospital after a nervous breakdown, the first work Vincent Van Gogh painted was a self-portrait. That painting is featured on these banners from the Neue Galerie exhibition Van Gogh and Expressionism. Expressive and introspective, the work is a compendium of the man: forceful yet peaceful, vibrantly colored yet cool, personal yet impersonal. Painted in the year before his suicide, the dynamic work seems to convey much of Van Gogh's inner struggle to reconcile his mental illness with his artistic vision. Description I should like to do portraits which will appear as revelations to people in a hundred years' time. So wrote Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh in a letter to his sister in the year of his death. It seems that he achieved this goal, as Van Gogh's self-portraits offer a bevy of revelatio