This self portrait is in the Musee d'Orsay in Paris.
Van Gogh is famous for his multiple self-portraits, painted over the course of his lifetime. The most famous were painted between 1887 and 1889.
He painted about 30 self-portraits between 1886 and 1889.
It is an oil painting like most of his paintings.
expressionism
One of the most famous paintings by van Gogh, Starry Night was painted in 1889; van Gogh completed it about 13 months before he died from a self-inflicted gun shot wound.
It was painted in 1889 by Paul Gauguin, and is also known as Symbolist Self Portrait.
Vincent van Gogh.
Rembrandt and van Gogh.
Van Gogh
Vincent's self portrait.
Van Gogh cut off the lobe of his left ear, enveloped it, and sent it to a woman named Rachel with a letter that read, "Guard this object carefully". He may have been looking into a mirror while painting the self portrait, for the picture shows his right ear is bandaged rather than his left. Soon after that violent event, Van Gogh was sent to an insane asylum on May 7, 1889. Here he was tested for multiple mental illnesses, but his exact sickness is still undetermined.