Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)
$47.00
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat, painted in 1887 by Vincent van Gogh during his two-year stay in Paris, is one of more than twenty self-portraits he produced in this remarkably concentrated period — cheaper than hiring models, and a direct laboratory for the color theories he was absorbing from the Impressionists and Neo-Impressionists he'd met through his brother Theo. Painted with short, directional strokes of complementary color, the straw hat and weathered face show van Gogh testing the broken-color technique that would soon define his mature style.
The canvas is painted on the reverse of an earlier, darker peasant study, "The Potato Peeler" (1885), from his Nuenen period — a physical record of how quickly and completely van Gogh's palette transformed after his move to Paris, from the somber earth tones of the Dutch countryside to the vibrant, broken color of the French avant-garde.
Held in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this masterwork is presented here as a premium stretched canvas reproduction, printed on museum-quality matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a solid 0.75-inch gallery wrap frame — ready to hang and built to last.
| Artist | Vincent van Gogh |
| Year | 1887 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 16 x 12 1/2 in. (40.6 x 31.8 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Post-Impressionism |
| Available sizes | |
| Small | 30 × 40 cm (12″ × 16″) |
| Medium | 40 × 50 cm (16″ × 20″) |
| Large | 60 × 90 cm (24″ × 36″) |
| All sizes include a 0.75" gallery wrap. Ready to hang — no framing required. | |
