50.00 €

No: 523466

Reproduction. Professional craftsmanship. Printing on wood base. Original author's technologies were used in the production. 32.0x40.0x1.0 cm. On May 20, 1890, Vincent van Gogh moved to Auvers-sur-Oise in the French Vexin, thirty-five kilometers northwest of Paris, in order to be followed by Doctor Gachet, a friend of painters and a specialist in nervous diseases. This final period of the painter's life was fruitful, as he composed more than seventy works. He died in Auvers on July 29, 1890 at half past one in the morning, after shooting himself in the chest on Sunday, July 27, 1890, in an open field. This small oil on canvas measuring 39 × 30.5 cm2 depicts a laughing adolescent with blue eyes and disheveled hair with long locks of a strawberry blond tending towards red who chews a blueberry with a mischievous air. This painting on a yellow background was described by Jacob Baart de la Faille under the catalogue number 7871. In a letter to his sister Willemina, Vincent wrote in June 1890: "What fascinates me the most, much and much more than anything else in my profession, is the portrait, the modern portrait."