An exhibition in the Netherlands explores Vincent van Gogh’s artistic affinity for the humble potato. Before moving to Paris and becoming enamored with flowers — a more vibrant subject for which there ...
Paul Cezanne is famed for the tilted apples in his still lifes, Paul Gauguin chose mangoes to conjure up exotic Polynesia, but Van Gogh was content with the humble potato. His works form the ...
For well over a century it was a family secret: Vincent van Gogh’s sister-in-law, Jo Bonger, had a short relationship with the Dutch Impressionist painter Isaac Israëls. Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum ...
The world-renowned Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam faces the threat of closure unless the Dutch government steps in to fund crucial repairs to its ageing building, its director has warned. Since opening ...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Amsterdam museum that displays a priceless collection of works by one of the world's most popular artists, Vincent van Gogh, may have to close if the Dutch government ...
Vincent van Gogh. Born 30 March 1853 (Died 29 July 1890) in the rural Dutch village of Zundert, his existence was a paradox of blazing creativity and consuming despair. In just ten turbulent years, he ...
Getting a ticket to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is not easy – Vincent’s posthumous fame as a symbol of the individualist avant-garde has elevated him to a position of near-mythic status, ...
Vincent van Gogh, Enclosed Field with Ploughman, 1889; Oil on canvas. Bequest of William A. Coolidge, Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston In 1889, at St. Rémy ...
On A Fire in His Soul: Van Gogh, Paris, and the Making of an Artist, by Miles J. Unger. “You once said to me that I would always be isolated,” wrote Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo in 1884. It ...
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