Legend has it that Van Gogh placed candles on his hat in order to paint at night, as reported by the biographer Gustave Coquiot in 1923.

The lit candle is at the ready—for lighting his pipe, ... UK and US) and Van Gogh’s Finale (2024, UK and US) are also now available in a more compact paperback format.

What was Vincent van Gogh’s gift, exactly? To many, his gift was his suffering. To them, he is “Vincent” - the patron saint of psychic anguish, the acme of tortured genius.

A postcard has helped to find the probable spot where Vincent van Gogh painted what may have been his final masterpiece, art experts say. The likely location for Tree Roots was found by Wouter van ...

Van Gogh did the picture at Aries, on Dec. 7, 1888, in the small hours of a restless night. He had been obsessed, he wrote his brother Theo, by a dream of painting himself by candlelight.

Watching a portrait of Van Gogh in a straw hat with candles on the brim pop up and then disappear felt as empty as cruising through virtual museums during the pandemic, everything flattened.