Vincent's portraits
Subtitle: paintings and drawings by Van Gogh
By: Ralph Skea
Contributors: Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780500519660
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Dutch Portrait painting; Self-portraits, Dutch; Self-portraits
Description: Despite his posthumous fame as a painter of flowers, still lifes, gardens, landscapes, and city scenes, Vincent van Gogh himself believed that his portraits constituted his most important works. Like other post-Impressionists, Van Gogh sought to capture the essential character of his models by means of expressive color and brushwork. Vincent's Portraits reflects the strong visual impact with which the artist captured the energy of contemporary life. In this dramatic set of portraits created during Van Gogh's ten-year career, the reader sees his desire to record a number of themes, from the plight of the agricultural workers in his native Brabant and the destitution of prostitutes and their children in urban Europe to the lives of his cosmopolitan acquaintances in Paris, including café owners and art dealers. It was here that he began his remarkable sequence of self- portraits.
Notes: "With 87 illustrations."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 110-111).
Table of contents: title: "And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter..."; title: The Netherlands; title: Paris; title: Arles; title: Saint-Rémy-de-Provence; title: Auvers-sur-Oise.