Adventures with Van Gogh is a weekly blog by Martin Bailey, our long-standing correspondent and expert on the artist. Published every Friday, his stories will range from newsy items about this most intriguing artist to scholarly pieces based on his own meticulous investigations and discoveries. © Martin Bailey
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
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
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...
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”
A vase of summer sunflowers in a late autumn scene proved a giveaway
Seized by Hitler's deputy, Hermann Göring, the picture disappeared in mysterious circumstances during the Second World War—but could it survive?
Visitors will be ‘blown away’ by the masterpieces—but there are intriguing and little-known stories behind many of the loans
Acquired by the arms dealer Emil Bührle, both have been on loan to a Zurich museum
“Moored Boats”, the “gem in the crown of the Bourbon collection”, will be auctioned in Hong Kong
As Vincent wrote to his brother, “life happens … in the garden, it isn’t so sad”
The author Michael Lobel argues that Vincent was more focused on industrial pollution
At today’s prices, few museums are able to purchase paintings by Vincent—the artist who failed to sell his own work
Visitors can also go to the spot where he stood his easel, enjoy the riverside view—and see how the artist transformed the scene into one of his best-loved paintings
His purple flowers have now faded to blue, as revealed during research for a Getty exhibition in October
A highly personal still-life painting featuring a pot, milk jug and cups offers an insight into daily life in the Yellow House
Tate’s show on Expressionism reminds us that Vincent was “the father of us all”
Bacon believed the Dutch artist deformed reality “to make it more real”
Fluttering butterflies enliven the greenery, but also remind us of the transience of life
A new biography reveals that the director of the Kröller-Müller Museum had earlier acquired eight Van Goghs for his personal collection—and he may have sold the finest one to Hitler’s deputy, Hermann Göring
Kojiro Matsukata’s still life was destroyed in a London fire and his “Van Gogh’s Bedroom” was seized during the Second World War
The optimistic April paintings were produced at an extremely challenging time for the artist
