At the toughest time of his life, the painter was supported by an unlikely soulmate, Joseph Roulin, a postman in Arles. It ...
Van Gogh’s pictures only occasionally come onto the market and, not surprisingly, they fetch huge sums. The odd one is sold ...
Van Gogh and Gauguin met in Paris, while both were frequenting the city’s vibrant and spirited artistic circles.Quickly forging a strong bond, the pair discovered mutual interests in moving ...
Following hospitalization for a severed ear, Van Gogh created this "keepsake" for his doctor, which soon ended up in a ...
Image credits: Vincent van Gogh, The Bedroom (1888) In 1901, Gauguin, in Tahiti, painted four still-lifes of sunflowers resting on a chair as a salute to his long-departed friend Van Gogh.
There’s certainly no shortage of public interest, judging by the huge response to the Courtauld’s recent Monet in London exhibition and the National’s just-closed Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers – the most ...
Attributing a work to the artist generally requires authentication by the Van Gogh Museum, but lawsuits and an influx of ...
More than 20 artworks by world-renowned Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh will be shown in the art exhibition, including 14 of ...
The BBC has more on the show and the artist’s relationship with the Roulin family.
There they would have greeted Paul Gauguin, who arrived a month later. This second painting, now entitled The Poet’s Garden, survives and is at the Art Institute of Chicago. Van Gogh’s The ...
Van Gogh's tumultuous relationship with Gauguin, and the fallout between them that most likely precipitated the ear incident, has tended to overshadow his narrative, but Roulin offered something ...
A new exhibition explores this close friendship, and how it benefited art history. On 23 December, 1888, the day that Vincent ...