Self Portrait with a Straw Hat

Dutch Artist Vincent Van Gogh painted numerous self portraits during his lifetime. The earliest of these is dated 1886. In all likelihood, Van Gogh's self portraits depict the face as it appeared in the mirror that he used to reproduce his face, i.e. his left side in the image really is the right side of his face.

Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait without beard, which he painted just after shaving in September 1889, is one of the most expensive paintings of all time, being sold for $71.5 million in New York in 1998.

It should be noted that all Self-Portraits painted by Van Gogh after he cut his ear show the artist's head from the left, i.e. the side with ear not mutilated