Self-Portrait

Emile Bernard (1868 - 1941), 1918

oil on paper, 65.5 cm x 54 cm

Credits: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (gift of Elin and Bengt Ekström)

Object number
s0402M1990
Dimensions
65.5 cm x 54 cm, 91 cm x 78 cm
Provenance
Private collection; auction London, Christie’s (Modern Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture), lot 509 (Autoportrait), sold for GBP 1.210, presumably to Bengt and Elin Ekström, Uppsala, 3 July 1987; donated by Bengt and Elin Ekström to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, 1 December 1989, and at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994.
artist
Emile Bernard
Credits
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (gift of Elin and Bengt Ekström)

Luthi, Jean-Jacques, Emile Bernard : catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1982, p. 146-147

Leeman, Fred, Leeuw, Ronald de, Pennock, Hanna, Tilborgh, Louis van, Vincent van Gogh and his time : Van Gogh & portraits from the Van Gogh Museum and the H.W. Mesdag Museum, 1994, p. 90-91, 127

Vergeest, Aukje, The French collection : nineteenth-century French paintings in Dutch public collections, 2000, p. 65

Leeuw, Ronald de, Tilborgh, Louis van, Esner, Rachel, Becker, Edwin, Heugten, Sjraar van, Leeman, Fred, Vriend, Anita, Van Gogh Museum Journal 1995, 1995, p. 175

Luthi, Jean-Jacques, Israël, Armand, Emile Bernard : instigateur de l'école de Pont-Aven, précurseur de l'art moderne : sa vie, son oeuvre : catalogue raisonné, 2014, p. 281

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