Van Gogh painted his iconic The Starry Night in 1889, while in an asylum in Saint-Rémy. "One of the most beautiful things by the painters of this century," he had written to Theo in April 1885, "has ...

Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime. He was not a financially successful artist, and he was entirely dependent on his brother, Theo, to monetarily support his artistic vision.

Vincent Van Gogh. Penniless, unappreciated, isolated. A gentle soul suffering for his art, misunderstood by all. Fiction. All of it. No artist wears more mythology than Van Gogh. Surprising, since few ...

An exhibition in Boston celebrates the little known Roulins of Arles, a family that tempered the artist’s depressions and sat for indelible portraits. Vincent van Gogh, “Madame Roulin and Her Baby,” ...

Van Gogh’s pictures only occasionally come onto the market and, not surprisingly, they fetch huge sums. The odd one is sold privately through a dealer, usually very discreetly—but in a typical year ...

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 ...