Self-portrait with grey felt hat by Vincent Van Gogh

Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat by Vincent van Gogh, painted in 1887, is an oil-on-cardboard portrait from his Paris period. The work shows Van Gogh in a pale felt hat and blue jacket, set before a swirling blue background flecked with warm orange strokes. Its radiating, broken brushwork reveals his study of Neo-Impressionism while retaining an urgent personal intensity. The portrait is one of his boldest experiments in turning color and touch into psychological expression.

Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter whose vivid palette, thick brushwork, and emotional directness helped shape modern art. In Paris, he absorbed Impressionist light, Pointillist technique, and Japanese design, all of which transformed his earlier dark style. His self-portraits served as technical studies and searching records of identity. Though little recognized in life, he later became one of the most celebrated artists in Western art.