21-01-2020 19:16 via artnews.com

Van Gogh Self-Portrait Painted While the Artist Experienced Psychosis Is Authenticated by Experts

A painting created by Vincent van Gogh while he experienced psychosis has been authenticated by experts at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
The work, titled Self-Portrait (1889), has been in the collection of the Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo since 1910, and it depicts the artist’s face rendered in subdued yellows, greens, and blues. Van Gogh admitted himself to an asylum in Saint-Rémy, France, a few months before the piece was made.
The Guardian reports that van Gogh may have referenced
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