Years later, inspired by Vincent’s paintings, the French artist became a “wild beast”
His ‘Sunflowers’ painting does not make the list—and there are other surprises too
While painting Joseph Roulin and his wife and children, Vincent wrote in great excitement: “I’ve done the portraits of an entire family”
The London institution had a false start as a museum, but is now thriving with its winning combination of hosting temporary exhibitions and art fairs, and renting studio spaces to creatives
At the last minute hundreds of Kiefer’s home-grown sunflower seeds stuck on a huge painting needed to be replaced after they had attracted insects
The sketch reproduces a long-lost painting of the public garden outside the Yellow House
As Birmingham’s peasant woman painting goes on loan to Charleston, we explore the question of its provenance
The picture shows the ward where the artist slept after mutilating his ear—I witnessed the room’s tragic demolition
Specialists and curators on what gathering Thames paintings from around the world revealed
The New York-based LMI Group claims the $50 portrait is a previously unknown work by the Dutch master, perhaps now worth $15m, but the Van Gogh Museum rejects it
A new Dutch book provides the first comprehensive account of how the artist’s work has been targeted by thieves
Both pictures were acquired by the same private collector, they have not left Switzerland for a century
The piece, one side of which is an enamel copy of a 16th-century woodcut, the other side crafted in Ethiopia, reveals how European icons became incorporated into the African country’s traditions
The National Gallery’s blockbuster exhibition, ‘Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers’, provides an unusual opportunity to see how the artist’s works have been framed by their owners
This year also marks the 150th anniversary of Vincent’s time as a young art dealer in England
Our review of 2024: record sales, exhibitions, fakes—and tracking down Dr Gachet
This unlikely grouping is part of an astonishing story involving New York’s Guggenheim Museum
This year has been marked by a rising number of politically-motivated attacks on art. But we should not forget the power of art to unite diverse groups of people
Their astonishing 1896 exhibition is now being celebrated by the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands
The painting, which has just gone on display at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum, was previously hidden away in a private collection for over a century
A pair of pictures with this bizarre geological feature have been brought together at London’s National Gallery, on loan from New York
Bought by a British collector, the Dutch landscape was donated to an institution dedicated to Pope John Paul II
Event, which was the first of its kind in the world and now involves more than 20 institutions, is run by museums rather than dealers
Japanese acquisitions have been funded by maker of Benson & Hedges, Winston, Camel and Silk Cut
The sketch of Austin Friars Church throws fresh light on Vincent’s draftsmanship, suggesting he was even more of a late developer as an artist
Ambitious shows to open in Boston, Amsterdam, Tokyo...
Leonardo’s largest known drawing was hung with the Mona Lisa in his studio, says Per Rumberg, the curator of the Royal Academy’s Florentine Old Masters exhibition opening this month
Gauguin then went on to make a ceramic self-portrait with bleeding ears
We name the London collector who parted with the painting
Vincent described his friend as having “a big, bearded face, very Socratic”