Cézanne takes you down to a place by the river.
Having a hard time seeing the self portrait.
Reminds me of the episode of the Dick Van Dyke show when Dick and Laura bought a flea market portrait (signed ‘Artanis’) they thought might have been painted on top of Grant Wood’s “American Gothic.”
They scrubbed off the Artanis portrait with paint thinner to find what looked to be an authentic Wood underneath so, thinking they had bought a valuable masterpiece, they called in an art appraiser. The appraiser (played by Howard Morris, better known as Mayberry’s Ernest T. Bass) took one look and told them the Wood was a bad forgery but they had destroyed an original Frank Sinatra (who always signed his name on his art backwards so it would be critiqued without regard for the painter’s celebrity) to get to it.
I only have one self-portrait, from when I was 19 and it is unfinished.
Maybe I should try it again fifty years later, having forsaken art for the need not to starve.