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Van Gogh created many self-portraits throughout his life, was a prolific self-portraitist, the thirty-seven times painted between 1886 and 1889. In all these self-portraits, it is surprising that the painter sight rarely speaks to us, even if it is a glance, look elsewhere. These pictures are in their intensity and color, and some representatives of the artists with a beard, shaved, some with bandages, the episode in which he struck him an ear. Self-portrait without beard, is the end of September 1889, one of the most expensive paintings of all time, selling 71.5 million in 1998 in New York. At that time, was the third (or fourth for inflation) the most expensive painting ever sold. All Van Gogh self-portraits done in Saint-RMY show that means the head of the artist from the left, the other side of the mutilated ear, only shows his good side.

In the last weeks of his life in Auvers-sur-Oise, although it has produced many paintings, Van Gogh did not paint self-portraits.

Asylum Hall (September 1889), Saint-Remy, Van Gogh Museum, a brush and oils, black chalk, pink laid paper .A self-taught with little training, was Van Gogh far from academic, painting and drawing techniques. Recent research has shown that the work generally as an oil painting or drawings were known better known are described as mixed-media. to 'Bridge Langlois Arles sample from the pen to draw and ink drawing, while several works by Saint-RMY and Auvers, so far as drawings and watercolors, as the hall Asylum of Saint-Remy (September 1889), was effective in diluted oil are painted with a brush.