Vincent van Gogh was fanatic about light. "Oh! that beautiful midsummer sun here," he wrote to the painter Émile Bernard in 1888 from the south of France. "It beats down on one's head ...

The impending marriage was not the fundamental cause of Vincent’s mental health crisis, but he was very close to his brother ...

He is one of the most famous and influential artists of all time, but Vincent van Gogh struggled in obscurity ... The Red Vineyard (1888) which went for 400 francs in Belgium seven months before ...

Vincent van Gogh, “Postman Joseph Roulin” (1888) (© Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) “A head something like that of Socrates, almost no nose, a high forehead, bald pate, small grey eyes ...

In the late 1880s, Vincent ... the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. “I’ve done the portraits of an entire family, the family of the postman,” van Gogh wrote to his brother in late 1888.

Morell had come to Arles to take photographs in the places Vincent van Gogh painted ... When the 34-year-old Van Gogh moved to Arles from Paris in early 1888 hoping to establish a community ...

Soon after his move to Arles, in early 1888 ... and Atake (1857) and Van Gogh’s painting Bridge in the Rain (October-November 1887) Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation ...