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Nose, Nose, No!

By Thecleverpup @TheCleverPup
  "The next time I write I’ll send you my portrait; I had it taken last Sunday".  Letter from Theo to Vincent, January 1873. Letter # 3 of the Letters of Vincent Van Gogh*  
  Nose, Nose, No! Notice the nose. This studio portrait of Vincent Van Gogh was taken by the photographer J.M.W de Louw in January of 1873.  Nose, Nose, No!   Notice the nose. This is a photo of Vincent when he was about 13
Nose, Nose, No!   Notice the nose. This is the photo that Joseph Buberger promotes as being Van Gogh despite the fact that it was taken in Quebec, Canada   Nose, Nose, No!   Notice the nose. This self-portrait, painted in Paris early 1888 was, according to Van Gogh's sister-in-law Jo Bonger "of all his self-portraits, the one with the most likeness" Denvir, Bernard, Vincent,A Complete Portrait, Running Press, Philadelphia, 1994  
     *http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let003/letter.html  

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