The roots along Rue Daubigny in Auvers-sur-Oise as they appeared in 2020 Arthénon / Van Gogh Museum On a late July morning in 1890, Vincent van Gogh rose from his lodgings in the small French ...

If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Vincent van Gogh, “Postman Joseph Roulin” (1888) (© Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) “A head something like ...

The deep blue sky, the glowing moon, the hypnotic swirls – Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” remains one of the most recognizable paintings in the world. It invites awe and interpretation, ...

Many assume that van Gogh was a child prodigy who painted from a young age and created masterpieces over the years. But this isn't true. Vincent van Gogh only seriously pursued art in his late 20s ...

Noon Rest from Work (1890) shows jeong between people, shoes, scythes, and hay bales. Source: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain Jeong, haan, and Vincent Van Gogh To more fully understand what ...

But when Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) set his sights on mastering the art of portraiture upon moving to Arles in the south of France in February 1888, he turned to the local postman, Joseph ...

“You once said to me that I would always be isolated,” wrote Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo in 1884. It was the second time that year that he returned to this assessment by the person who knew ...

The Vincent van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is sticking to its previous statement on a painting found in a Minnetonka garage. A New York-based art firm spent thousands of dollars and years of ...

happens to be the subject of Tree Roots (1890), which is likely the last painting by one of art history’s most beloved painters, Vincent van Gogh. Mayor Isabelle Mézières and Jean-François ...

A village feud over who owns the tree roots featured in Vincent van Gogh’s last painting ... Just hours before his death in July 1890, Van Gogh painted a scene of tangled tree roots in vivid ...

Joseph Roulin, a postman, was Van Gogh’s closest friend in Arles. Vincent painted not only him, but also his wife Augustine and their three children. Van Gogh and Roulin were drinking companions ...