Vincent van Gogh - Portrait of Doctor Gachet 1890
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Portrait of Doctor Gachet 1890
67x56cm oil/canvas
Private collection
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Portrait of Dr. Gachet is one of the most revered paintings by Vincent van Gogh of Dr. Paul Gachet, who took care of him in his last months. In 1990, it fetched a record price of $82.5 million ($75 million, plus a 10 percent buyer's commission).
Dr. Gachet was also an artist of the Impressionist era. He was an amateur painter and engraver. Vincent van Gogh went to the doctor for medical care. Van Gogh saw himself in the doctor; like himself, he saw in Dr. Gachet “the heart-broken expression of our time.” Similar to many of van Gogh’s portraits, the painting is a study not of the physical features of the man, but of the inner qualities of the doctor’s personality. The portrait of Dr. Gachet notes all the tiniest details of his appearance and depicts them in the way that van Gogh sees them. The characteristics of the doctor’s image are all freely painted so that the viewer may see them the same way that van Gogh does.