Though modern art was long a form of expression that the general public found hard to accept, the work of Vincent van Gogh, almost alone, proved easy to assimilate; in truth he is so universally ...

Vincent Van Gogh sold only a single painting in his lifetime. The tortured artist suffered from bouts of mental instability and took his own life at the age of 37, dying young and penniless.

AMSTERDAM (AP) — When he was just 17 years old, German artist Anselm Kiefer retraced the footsteps of Vincent van Gogh from the Netherlands through Belgium and into France. Now, more than half a ...