In 2022, a self portrait of this artist was discovered by Lesley Stevenson while X-raying the previously known 1885 painting Head of a Peasant Woman. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this artist, some of whose self-portraits depict him with a bandaged ear that he had cut off.
ANSWER: Vincent van Gogh [or Vincent Willem van Gogh]
[10m] van Gogh painted the self portrait several years before moving to this city, where he painted himself “on his way to work.” Yellow furniture appears in a “Bedroom” scene in this city where van Gogh stayed with Paul Gauguin.
ANSWER: Arles (“arl”) [accept Bedroom in Arles]
[10h] van Gogh’s more unusual portraits include one in which goods for this activity sit on his chair. To mock academic lessons, van Gogh created a portrait of a skeleton performing this action.
ANSWER: smoking [or smoking tobacco; accept smoking a cigarette or smoking a cigar or smoking a pipe] (A pipe and tobacco sit on the chair.)
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