The most significant collaborations of Medicom Toy for 2020 so far, features "Self Portrait" artwork by one of the most important artists of the 19th century Vincent Van Gogh

Van Gogh presented himself in this self-portrait as a painter, holding a palette and paintbrushes behind his easel. He showed that he was a modern artist by using a new painting style, with bright, almost unblended colors. The palette contains the complementary color pairs red/green, yellow/purple and blue/orange – precisely the colors Van Gogh used for this painting. He laid these pairs down side by side to intensify one another: the blue of his smock, for instance, and the orange-red of his beard.

Self-Portrait as a Painter was the last work Van Gogh produced in Paris; the city had exhausted him both mentally and physically. He Thow he had portrayed himself: ‘wrinkles in the forehead and around the mouth, stiffly wooden, a very red beard, quite unkempt and sad’.

Size: 400% (280mm) + 100% (70mm)