Vincent van Gogh wanted to create portraits that would “appear as revelations to people in a hundred years' time”. He believed them to be a means of showing “the soul of the model.” Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin, shown here, was painted in 1888, two years before van Gogh's death. (From Van Gogh Face to Face: The Portraits by Roland Dorn et al.; Thames & Hudson, £32, $50.)
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Expressions that stand the test of time. Nature 405, 275 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/35012673
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