French mayor loses bid to snatch scene of iconic Van Gogh painting from villagers’ back garden
A village feud over who owns extant tree roots behind Vincent Van Gogh last ever painting has been settled after a local ...
French mayor loses bid to snatch scene of Van Gogh painting from villagers’ back garden
A village feud over who owns extant tree roots behind Vincent van Gogh last painting has been settled after a local mayor ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN14d
Why Did Vincent van Gogh Paint 26 Portraits of a Postman and His Family While Staying in the South of France?
The artist met Joseph Roulin, a 47-year-old postal worker, in the late 1880s. The series of artworks will be reunited at ...
The Art Newspaper12d
Matisse wanted to buy a Van Gogh portrait—instead, his brother bought a bicycle
Matisse, then a 29-year-old struggling artist, discovered Van Gogh’s work at Ambroise Vollard’s gallery in Paris. He fell in ...
Edmonton Journal11d
Review: Shadow Theatre's After Mourning - Before Van Gogh a touching portrait
After Mourning – Before Van Gogh is the latest from Calgary Playwright Michael Czuba, the world premiere of a touching show ...
'A very deep bond of friendship': The surprising story of Van Gogh's guardian angel
At the toughest time of his life, the painter was supported by an unlikely soulmate, Joseph Roulin, a postman in Arles. It ...
Biography on MSN8d
7 Facts About Vincent van Gogh
He is one of the most famous and influential artists of all time, but Vincent van Gogh struggled in obscurity during his ...
The Art Newspaper5d
‘Mystery of a masterpiece’: how Van Gogh’s postman portrait ‘disappeared’ from London’s Tate Gallery a century ago
Now owned by New York’s MoMA, the painting of Joseph Roulin is the star loan for a major exhibition opening in Boston ...
Wall Street Journal25d
‘A Fire in His Soul’ Review: Van Gogh’s Paris Transformation
Nor is Van Gogh by any means an unknown character, in part because his devoutly self-absorbed letters, addressed to his brother Theo and ... for its bohemian tone. Vincent had been painting ...
Clarion Herald3h
Titanic Faith
On the heels of previous multiscreen exhibits that brought to life the art of Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet, a new ...