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”

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?

Traces of the statesman’s smoke have been removed from the painting of Charing Cross Bridge, which took Monet 24 years to finish

A magnificent show with important and rarely seen loans that highlight the Dutch artist’s astonishing achievements in Provence

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