The Starry Night, The Potato Eaters, and Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear are all paintings by what famed artist?
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear different. The "Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe" has become more widely accepted in academia as one of Van Gogh’s authentic paintings. Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear is an 1889 self-portrait by Dutch, Post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. In this self-portrait, Van Gogh is shown wearing a blue cap with black fur and a green overcoat, with a bandage covering his ear and extending under his chin. He is in a traditional three-quarter view, and his forward gaze falls slightly to the right, out of the frame. Behind him is an open window, assumedly letting in
The Starry Night in a letter to Theo on or about 20 September 1889, when he included it in a list of paintings he was sending to his brother in Paris, referring to it as a "night study." Of this list of paintings, he wrote, "All in all the only things I consider a little good in it are the Wheatfield, the Mountain, the Orchard, the Olive trees with the blue hills and the Portrait and the Entrance to the quarry, and the rest says nothing to me"; "the rest" would include "The Starry Night". When he decided to hold back three paintings