Auguste Blackman 'Vincent Van Gogh' erotic 'The End of Summer' 1976

'The End of Summer' 1976

'Lantana II' 2005

Blackman spent much of his childhood in the garden and it’s been said

Closely related to his paintings of the period

Image Size: 24 x 25 cm

Auguste Blackman 'Vincent Van Gogh' erotic 'The End of Summer' 1976Vincent Van Gogh is more than an icon of art history, he is a romantic myth. Undiscovered in his lifetime and plagued with mental illness, the specificities of his personality and practice have been subsumed beneath tragedy. In Auguste Blackmans portrait of the artist, Van Goghs charisma and vulnerability beams forth, his red hair filling the frame. Across his lifetime, Van Gogh painted thirty seven self portraits, less because of vanity and more from