Self-portrait
Also titled Zelfportret
Émile Bernard (Lille, 1868–1941)
1897
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 52 cm x width 42 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of F.W.M., Baroness Bonger-van der Borch van Verwolde, Almen
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
‘A nos amis de Hollande’ (to our friends in Holland) Bernard wrote at the upper left. He meant the family of Andries Bonger, to whom he gave this self-portrait. Bernard belonged to the Nabis, the group of artists around Paul Gauguin, and was friends with Vincent van Gogh and Jan Verkade. He painted his self-portrait in the style called Synthetism or Cloisonnism, featuring simple, clearly delineated shapes and a limited range of colours.
