Self-Portrait, Kröller-Müller Museum, 1887

A small head on cardboard from April to June 1887, one of the spring pictures that show how fast his color brightened in his first year in Paris. The jacket now reads as pale blue because a red pigment has faded; a 1919 sale catalog called the suit pale lilac. Conservators took off nearly half of a yellowed varnish before it was shown in London in 2022. Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.