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A lonely Van Gogh painted postman Joseph Roulin and his family in a creative frenzy. The portraits, on view at MFA Boston, ...
Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts offers the first major exhibition devoted to these canvases, featuring 14 of the works Van Gogh ...
The exhibition reveals Van Gogh’s intense devotion to painting—even through deep sorrow and unbearable hallucinations.
It was recently determined that the artist painted his final work, “Tree Roots,” in Auvers-sur-Oise. The roots still exist, ...
The British Museum’s exhibition on the Japanese master printmaker Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) will include Van Gogh’s own ...
But when Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) set his sights on mastering the art of portraiture upon moving ... inspired by Japanese prints as well as the kind of backdrops that would have been used ...
Vincent attributes this to worry and “no friends,” but he feels that both the artistic stiffness and social isolation “will change.” In art and life, Van Gogh “needed depth, something that spoke to ...
A tangled clump of tree roots that inspired Vincent van Gogh’s final painting are at the centre of a heated legal battle ...
At the beginning of 1888, Vincent van Gogh, about to turn 35 years old, moved from Paris, where proximity to the Impressionists had expanded his abilities as a painter, to the Provençal town of ...
One of the more surprising of Van Gogh’s still lifes is ... of his later paintings from Arles. Art historians who plump for Arles cite a letter from Vincent to his brother Theo on 7 January ...