On a late July morning in 1890, Vincent van Gogh rose from his lodgings in the small French countryside town of Auvers-sur-Oise and set out to paint. He didn’t have far to walk through the village ...

48.5 x 24.1 cm. (19.1 x 9.5 in.) Jean-Baptiste de la Faille, L'Œuvre de Vincent van Gogh, Catalogue raisonné, vol. III, Paris and Brussels 1928, no. 1000, p. 41 ...

It seems that van Gogh never dreamed his paintings would become such fixed stars in the art firmament. In 1890, less than two months before he ended his life with a pistol shot, he wrote to a ...