The last self-portrait year in this record

The record dates Self-portrait without beard to 1889. Eighteen titles in this catalogue name a self-portrait, and they occupy exactly four years: four dated 1886, seven dated 1887, three dated 1888 and four dated 1889. None is dated 1890, and none belongs to the Nuenen period. The type opens with Paris and closes with Saint-Rémy in the record as this catalogue holds it.

What the record gives

The canvas measures 65 by 54 centimetres and is recorded in a private collection — one of 118 entries here whose location field ends at that phrase, against 135 at the Van Gogh Museum. The measured palette reads as ochre.

Ochre in the fourth period

Ochre dominates twenty-one of the 116 works dated 1889, its joint highest count in the decade alongside 1887. The family is scarce at the start — three works in 1882, none at all in 1883 or 1884 — and ordinary at the end. That is the shape of the measurement across ten years, and it is the only claim about colour this page makes. Where this canvas has been since 1890 the record does not say, and this page does not guess.