How the First Vincent van Gogh Piece Was Acquired in the US: Book Excerpt
Blake Gopnik recounts how the Albert Barnes Foundation started its collection of modern art via an excerpt from his book, ...
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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Paint 26 Portraits of a Postman and His Family While Staying in the South of France?
In the late 1880s, Vincent van Gogh spent two years in southern France. Though the period was famously tumultuous for the ...
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Did someone really find a Van Gogh at a Minnesota yard sale?
Its new owner, LMI Group International, claims it can prove it was painted by Dutch master Vincent Van Gogh in France in 1889.
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What Do Van Gogh’s Rare Hospital Paintings Reveal About His Inner Turmoil?
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889) by Vincent Van Gogh. Collection of Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Photo: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images via Getty Images. Two paintings by Vincent Van ...
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17 Unique Facts About Van Gogh’s Yellow-Hued Series Of Sunflowers
Yellow was a favourite colour of Vincent Van Gogh that lived in most of his paintings - sunflowers, wheat ears, landscapes at harvest time, and in the light of the sun. From the stay in Arles ...
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The hidden science swirling in ‘The Starry Night’
The famous painting from Dutch post-impressionist Vincent van Gogh has sparked controversy among physicists. Two decades ago, a pair of physicists stood in a museum in Madrid contemplating the ...
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A new exhibition highlights how German artist Anselm Kiefer was inspired by Vincent van Gogh
When he was 17 years old, German artist Anselm Kiefer retraced the footsteps of Vincent van Gogh from the Netherlands through Belgium and into France AMSTERDAM -- When he was just 17 years old, German ...
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The Kiefer-Van Gogh exhibition comes to Amsterdam and London, with fresh works inspired by the German artist’s pilgrimage 60 years ago
had won a travel grant to visit the places where Van Gogh lived and worked. He started in Zundert, the village in the south of the Netherlands where Vincent was born, and later continued to ...