Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent Van Gogh, 1887, pastel on board, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Lautrec’s powerful portrait of Van Gogh is a rare pastel, showing the Dutchman seated at a cafe table. There is nothing to show that the sitter is an artist, though the thrusting diagonal of his back, his alert gaze (created with just a dab of olive green), and the revealing tension in his hands suggest a determined debater.”*
*From a description of Toulouse Lautrec’s portrait of his friend Vincent Van Gogh in Paris by Richard Thomson, Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre, National Gallery of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago with Princeton University Press, NJ, 2005.
The above image is used solely for educational purposes.
