After burrowing a book entitled 'Expressionist Painter's' I came across this painting. The self-portrait was painted in 1913. It was painted by candle light which may explain the fertile colours and flickering texture.
When I first saw this self-portrait I was both impressed and taken-back. The colours are very intimate, the red neck fracturing the warm-yellow face and cold-green body. The paint has been constructed in thick angular brush strokes, rendering a movement in the surface as if the candle light was still dancing on the painting itself.
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