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"Captivated by Vincent. The Intimate Friendship of Jo van Gogh-Bonger and Isaac Israëls" will be on view at the Van Gogh ...
At an Italian art museum, two visitors recently attempted to photograph themselves with a chair-shaped sculpture made of ...
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam determined that "Elimar," the oil on canvas depicting a fisherman smoking a pipe, painted around 1889, was not an original piece of work by the Dutch painter.
Born March 30th, 1853 in Holland, Vincent van Gogh was the eldest son of a Protestant minister. Vincent was expected to conform to a strict, religious upbringing. At the age of 16, he went to work ...
In 1889, Vincent van Gogh committed himself to a psychiatric asylum in Southern France, where he spent a turbulent year creating roughly 150 paintings, including masterpieces such as “Irises ...
Vincent van Gogh, the brilliant but tortured Dutch painter, cut off his own left ear on this day in history, Dec. 23, 1888, following a fight with friend and fellow artist Paul Gaugin.
Why did Vincent van Gogh paint a skeleton smoking a cigarette? His 1886 painting doesn’t quite seem to fit into his larger output, ... The skull referred to the Dance of Death, ...
A previously unknown self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh has been discovered hidden on the back of another painting. Experts at the National Galleries of Scotland made the find when the canvas was X ...
Vincent van Gogh. The Postman (Joseph-Étienne Roulin), 1889, Oil on canvas. The Barnes Foundation. Tame as the Paris purchases might seem to jaded 21st-century eyes, they must ...