Vincent Van Gogh sold only a single painting in his lifetime. The tortured artist suffered from bouts of mental instability ...

Following hospitalization for a severed ear, Van Gogh created this "keepsake" for his doctor, which soon ended up in a ...

At the toughest time of his life, the painter was supported by an unlikely soulmate, Joseph Roulin, a postman in Arles. It ...

Vincent was ever grateful for Theo’s assistance and love, evidenced in the many letters that survive from the brothers’ lifelong correspondence. Vincent van Gogh was born on 30 March 1853 in ...

Image credits: The National Gallery, London Vincent van Gogh wanted to be known as the painter of sunflowers. In a letter to his brother Theo, Van Gogh boldly declared, “The sunflower is mine”.

Attributing a work to the artist generally requires authentication by the Van Gogh Museum, but lawsuits and an influx of ...

Nor is Van Gogh by any means an unknown character, in part because his devoutly self-absorbed letters, addressed to his brother Theo and which have become our prime source for details about the ...

We also have an unusually lengthy description of the lost painting given by Vincent to Theo, focussing on his colouration. Van Gogh’s sketch of Public Garden in Arles in his letter to Eugène ...

At the toughest, most turbulent time of his life, the Post-Impressionist painter was supported by an unlikely soulmate, Joseph Roulin, a postman in Arles. A new exhibition explores this close ...