Self-portrait without beard
{{Short description|Painting by Vincent van Gogh}}
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| title= Self-portrait without beard
| artist=Vincent van Gogh
| year=1889
| medium=Oil on canvas
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| width_metric=54
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Self-portrait without beard is an 1889 oil on canvas painting by the Post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. The picture, which may have been Van Gogh's last self-portrait, was painted in September that year. The self-portrait is one of the most expensive paintings of all time, selling for $71.5 million in 1998 in New York City. At the time, it was the third (or an inflation-adjusted fourth) most expensive painting ever sold.
Art historians are divided as to whether this painting or Self-portrait is Van Gogh's final self-portrait. Ronald Pickvance considered this to be the last, whilst Ingo F. Walther and Jan Hulsker think Self-portrait was the later painting. It was given by van Gogh to his mother as a birthday gift.
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- {{citation |last=Beckett |first=Wendy |title=The Story of Painting, The Essential Guide to the History of Western Art |year=1994 |publisher=Dorling Kidersley |isbn=978-0751301335 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/storyofpainting00beck }}
- {{cite book|last=Denvir|first=Bernard|title=Vincent: The Complete Self-Portraits|year=1994|publisher=Running Press|location=Philadelphia, PA|isbn=978-0-7624-0094-2|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/vincentcompletep0000denv}}
- {{cite book|last=Pickvance|first=Ronald|title=Van Gogh in Saint-Rémy and Auvers|url=https://archive.org/details/vangoghinsaintre0000pick|url-access=registration|publisher= Abrams|location=New York|year=1986|isbn=0-87099-477-8}}
- {{cite book|last1=Walther|first1=Ingo|last2=Metzger|first2=Rainer|title=Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings|year=2000|publisher=Taschen|location=Cologne|isbn=978-3-8228-1215-0}}
- {{cite book|last=Walther|first=Ingo|title=Van Gogh|year=2000|publisher=Taschen|location=Cologne|isbn=978-3-8228-6322-0|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/vincentvangogh180000walt}}
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See also
{{Vincent van Gogh}}
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Category:Paintings by Vincent van Gogh
Category:Self-portraits by Vincent van Gogh
Category:Oil on canvas paintings
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