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Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat by Vincent van Gogh
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Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat, 1887

Vincent van Gogh

Oil on canvas · 16 x 12 1/2 in. (40.6 x 31.8 cm)

A quick, sunlit self-study painted over an earlier, abandoned canvas.

Unable to afford models, van Gogh painted himself constantly. In this bright summer self-portrait the straw hat and dabbed blue background crackle with the short, energetic strokes that would define his style — a candid, searching look at the artist himself.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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