Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Number Nine: Portrait de l’artiste sans barbe by Vincent Van Gogh


Van Gogh’s beardless self-portrait shows the artist hiding something– namely a nasty, Absinthe-fueled shaving accident. In the year of this portrait, Van Gogh cut off part of his ear amidst a bout of severe depression that would later lead to his suicide.

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