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Van Gogh's Chair, 1888
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Van Gogh's Chair with a pipe and tobacco.
A rustic chair on which Van Gogh has placed his pipe and tobacco stands as the artist's surrogate self portrait, while the terracotta tiles and limewashed walls give a glimpse of the Yellow House’s simple interior. Painted in late 1888, when the painter Paul Gauguin had come to stay in Arles, it is one of a pair — the other flatteringly representing Gauguin via an armchair with two novels and a candle on its seat.
Oil on canvas
The National Gallery, London. Bought, Courtauld Fund, 1924