Of the 35 self-portraits this celebrated artist produced during his career, all but six were done during the two years he lived in Paris (when he could not afford a model).

“I prefer painting people’s eyes to cathedrals,” Van Gogh once wrote to his brother Theo. “However solemn and imposing the latter may be — a human soul, be it that of a poor streetwalker, is more interesting to me.”

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