Self-Portrait with Straw Hat and Pipe
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Paris, July-August 1887
oil on canvas, 42.5 cm x 32.1 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
This picture shows Van Gogh in typical working mode: wearing an artist’s smock and with his pipe clamped in a corner of his mouth. He has sketched himself in oils, using the paint sparingly. The pink ground layer is still clearly visible, for example under his smock and under the background.
Pipe-smoking made Van Gogh feel calm and contented. He felt that, to produce good work, he had to look after himself. And that definitely included being allowed to smoke his pipe ‘in peace’.
- F-number
- F0179v
- JH-number
- JH1300
- Object number
- s0068V1962v
- Dimensions
- 42.5 cm x 32.1 cm, 49 cm x 38.6 cm, cm
- Provenance
- Left by the artist at the apartment of his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, sometime between mid-July and August 1887; after his death on 25 January 1891, inherited by his widow, Jo van Gogh-Bonger, and their son, Vincent Willem van Gogh, Paris; administered until her death on 2 September 1925 by Jo van Gogh-Bonger, Bussum/Amsterdam/Laren; given on loan by Vincent Willem van Gogh, Laren to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, since 16 December 1930; transferred by Vincent Willem van Gogh to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam, 10 July 1962; agreement concluded between the Vincent van Gogh Foundation and the State of the Netherlands, in which the preservation and management of the collection, and its placing in the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, to be realized in Amsterdam, is entrusted to the State, 21 July 1962; given on loan until the opening of the museum on 2 June 1973 to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; on permanent loan to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh from 2 June 1973 and at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994.
- artist
- Vincent van Gogh
- Credits (obliged to state)
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
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