The record dates Selfportrait on the Road to Tarascon (The Painter on His Way to Work) to 1888 and gives its location as destroyed. Five works in this catalogue carry that value in the location field, and four of the five are dated 1888. Keeping them listed is a deliberate choice: a catalogue of a decade that dropped the works no longer in existence would misreport what the decade contained.
The canvas is recorded at 48 by 44 centimetres, close to square. The measured palette reads as green and yellow. That measurement is taken from the surviving catalogue image, as it is for every entry here.
Two titles in this catalogue name Tarascon, both dated 1888: this one and The Tarascon Diligence. The catalogue also holds eighteen titles naming a self-portrait in one spelling or another, of which three are dated 1888 โ this record spells it as one word, which is why a catalogue matches on records rather than on the shape of a name. Nothing about the circumstances in which the work was lost appears in the entry, and nothing is added here.
Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch: [หvษชnsษnt หสษชlษษฑ vษล หษฃษx] ; 30 March 1853 โ 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he c
Dutch art dealer, 1866-1911
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Selfportrait on the Road to Tarascon (The Painter on His Way to Work) is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh, 1888, held at Destroyed.
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