Vincent van Gogh

Despite dozens of biographies, thousands of articles, and millions of visitors to his museum in Amsterdam, there is still a good amount unknown about the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. Though his life began rather calmly in the countryside of southern Netherlands, it ended in tragedy at the young age of ...

No mean painter himself, Bernard brought the artist's insight into his tribute to his dear departed friend, capturing the essence of Vincent Van Gogh's art, also of his life, in no more than one hundred words. The two primary colours that so dominated Van Gogh's palette in the later years – yellow and blue ...

Soon after his arrival in Paris in 1886, Van Gogh purchased no fewer than 660 brightly coloured, inexpensive woodcut prints from the dealer Siegfried Bing. He was trying to cash in on the craze for all things Japanese that had swept the French capital, perhaps with the hope of obtaining a measure of ...

Vincent Van Gogh's landscape art expected to fetch 5 million euros at June auction. The auction of the oil painting, entitled Fishing Net Menders in the Dunes, will be the first time Van Gogh's work has been sold in France in more than two decades. art and culture Updated: Mar 29, 2018 14:44 IST. Reuters. The painting ...

AMSTERDAM — In the soft, clear light of Provence, France, Vincent van Gogh saw the crisp skies of Japanese woodcut prints. The almond blossoms, gnarled trees and irises that dotted the French landscape reminded him of nature scenes painted in Kyoto. And in the locals who drank in cafes of Arles, he ...

The paintings and life story of Vincent Van Gogh would appear to make the case that there's a connection between great art and madness. But does that apparent link have any real basis in science? Rita Braver takes a closer look: In the midst of his fierce and ultimately losing battle with madness, Vincent ...

With the recent release of the film "Loving Vincent", Vincent van Gogh's story has once again come into focus. And what a story it is. Did you know that he created over 1.800 paintings and drawings in just over a decade? Vincent van Gogh was born in 1853 in the Netherlands. Not only did he grow up here, ...

Women Mending Nets in the Dunes, which the Dutch artist painted early in his career at Scheveningen near The Hague, is expected to go for around €5m (£4.4m/US$6m) when it is auctioned in June. But with the art market booming and prices for artists such as Vincent Van Gogh rocketing, experts said it ...

Its unique collection of Vincent van Gogh's art includes two direct copies of Hiroshige prints that he painted in 1887. One depicts the white flowers of plum trees against a scintillating pink sky, the other a curvy wooden bridge seen through driving rain that's represented as sharp black lines against varying ...