Van Gogh painted this as a joke during his student days: a study that feels more alive than half the portraits of his time.
There’s something unsettling in the way it grins back: half-mocking, half-aware, like it knows it wasn’t supposed to outlast its own anatomy.
A little provocation from an artist who never did things the standard way.
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