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Cairo's palatial museum full of Impressionist treasures—closed for a decade after a Van Gogh was stolen—finally reopens to the public
Egypt's Mr & Mrs Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum holds important works by artists including Paul Gauguin, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet
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Dutch police arrest over Van Gogh smash-and-grab raid: how long until the landscape is recovered?
The suspect is linked to a Frans Hals theft, which should help track down paintings from two museums
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Who bought the €13m Van Gogh? Britain’s second richest family
Montmartre painting was auctioned twice by Sotheby’s, after a bidder failed to have the necessary cash
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Selling, selling, sold...and sold again. The truth about the bungled sale of a Van Gogh at Sotheby's
Rare painting of a Montmartre street scene sold three times in the same auction
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The tragedy of Vincent van Gogh’s youngest sister Willemien—a feminist who spent 38 years in an asylum
New book explores the extraordinary story of the three Van Gogh sisters
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The astonishing tale of how a US vice president’s Van Gogh work ended up in Iran
Vincent’s print—inscribed “At Eternity’s Gate” by the artist—went from Nelson Rockefeller to Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Art, a new book by Donna Stein reveals
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New research reveals how a grasshopper got stuck—leaving its mark in Van Gogh's painting on a summer’s day in Provence
The new Nelson-Atkins Museum catalogue tells the full story of the Olive Trees
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Boris Johnson says Van Gogh’s Sunflowers 'lifts the soul'—as the London masterpiece is unveiled in Australia
Britons will have to wait a bit longer to enjoy the painting as Covid-19 delays the National Gallery’s international tour, now on its final stop in Canberra
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Bought for around $1,000, now worth $10m: where was the newly unveiled Van Gogh landscape hidden away?
Montmartre windmill painting is on view with Sotheby’s for the first time since it left the easel
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Unseen Van Gogh painting of Paris—owned by one French family for a century—could make $10m at Sotheby’s
The rare work shows a distinctive pastoral side to the city's Montmartre neighbourhood
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Pissarro predicted that Van Gogh 'would either go mad or leave the Impressionists far behind'
Fresh evidence of Camille’s admiration for Vincent: an unpublished document reveals he owned the Dutch artist’s portrait of their paintseller friend Père Tanguy
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Hockney and Van Gogh paintings meet in Houston for exhibition on the joys of nature
Despite Covid-19, the show will open with works now safely flown across the Atlantic
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Seller of $92m Botticelli also collected Van Gogh
Sheldon Solow’s Rhône riverscape is worth $40m—but what will happen to it now that the billionaire New York collector has died?
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Van Gogh’s Japanese girl could fetch record $10m at auction
A Provençal drawing coming up at Christie’s New York is based on a painting in Washington, DC
BlogDiary
The art of caring—UK gallery launches Nurse in Residence programme
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Is Van Gogh hiding at the back of this Toulouse-Lautrec drawing?
In this rare depiction of Vincent, now in a Hiroshima museum, he is observing a raucous cabaret in Paris
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A lost Van Gogh self-portrait had the most extraordinary frame that included his much-loved sunflowers—here it is reconstructed
The painting—which went missing in a German salt mine during the war—was given a gilded frame with swirling lines
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Treats for Van Gogh fans in 2021: exhibitions, museum openings and books
We look ahead at the events to enjoy this year—assuming coronavirus doesn't scupper them
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Barbra Streisand just bought a Van Gogh painting—once owned by Penthouse boss Bob Guccione—for a cool $4.5m
Californian-based singer and actress, now 78, has long collected art and design, starting with a Matisse in 1964
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Why the Van Gogh Museum might never have existed—new research reveals how the family collection was nearly sold off
In 1911, the Kröller-Müller couple tried to acquire 200 of Vincent’s paintings and 600 drawings
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Poignant Van Gogh watercolour of a windmill coming up for sale
Sheltering from a rainstorm at the mill, Vincent and his brother Theo made a teenage pact
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Hunt still on for a Van Gogh self-portrait lost deep in a salt mine during the Second World War
The Magdeburg masterpiece may have been burned at the end of hostilities—but some believe it might have been looted and survive
PreviewExhibitions
Visitors can step into Van Gogh’s swirling landscapes at Florida’s Dalí Museum
An immersive exhibition of the artist’s most famous works, projected onto large-scale 360° screens, opens this weekend
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A separated pair: the story behind Van Gogh’s famed empty chairs
An insight into what the two paintings reveal about Vincent's life with Gauguin in the Yellow House
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Did alcohol withdrawal really cause Van Gogh’s mental crises?
Vincent was allowed 42 units of wine at the asylum—three times more than today’s recommended limit
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New book solves the mystery of Van Gogh's lost harmonium portrait
Vincent scrunched up a study for a second portrait of Marguerite Gachet, the daughter of his Auvers doctor
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Two Van Gogh fakes in Washington? Strong evidence produced against early drawings at the National Gallery of Art
Revelations in new book about an attic discovery throw fresh light on Vincent’s decision to become an artist
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In a moving letter, Van Gogh complains about quarantine after his forced removal from the Yellow House
New exhibition at Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum is a unique opportunity to see Vincent’s correspondence, normally locked away in a vault
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Coveted Van Gogh bouquet to be sold at Sotheby's New York, valued at $18m
Chequered past: from the Bear Skin to the Nazis, a once-restituted painting is now coming up for auction
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The most famous bedroom in art history: secrets of Van Gogh’s nocturnal life
A story of changing wall colours, a pair of pillows, wartime bombs and the hunt for a lost bed
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Gauguin and Van Gogh: their shared love of Japan revealed
“Beautiful women” in Gauguin’s rediscovered manuscript are now identified as by Kunisada—Vincent’s favourite Japanese printmaker
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Gauguin claims credit for Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: the revelations of a rediscovered manuscript
In Avant et Après—just acquired by London's Courtauld Gallery—Gauguin details his tumultuous time with Van Gogh
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Van Gogh exhibitions return—exclusive news all the way up to 2024
From olive groves to peat moors: shows coming up in Dallas, Amsterdam, Detroit, Vienna, Assen, Columbus and Santa Barbara
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Which is the only museum in the world actively buying up Van Goghs? It’s in the hometown of Hieronymus Bosch
The Noordbrabants Museum’s latest acquisition is Head of a Woman, bought privately for €1.6m through Christie’s
BlogBook Club
An expert’s guide to Vincent van Gogh: five must-read books on the Dutch artist
All you ever needed to know about the artist, from the story of the ear incident to the definitive biography and best picture book—selected by Van Gogh specialist Martin Bailey
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Art for the People: how a Van Gogh masterpiece ended up in an English village hall
In 1935 Samuel Courtauld lent Peach Blossoms to bring major paintings to the countryside—an inspiration for today
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Van Gogh detective discovers exact spot of artist's last work, painted just hours before his suicide
The spot—in a village north of Paris—now has a plaque linking it to Vincent's death
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Van Gogh held hostage: private detective tells us he has more photographs
Will Arthur Brand’s images of the stolen painting lead to a recovery?
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Courtauld Gallery acquires watercolour by A.S. Hartrick—friend and portraitist of Van Gogh and Gauguin
“Tall, dark, rather handsome”, his description of Gauguin in Breton garb
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Dutch villa, which once housed nearly a thousand Van Goghs, under threat of demolition
The fate of the 1901 home in the oak garden is in the balance
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Only joint letter from Van Gogh and Gauguin—recording their brothel visits—comes up for sale
Vincent describes his artist friend as having the “instincts of a wild beast”
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Now stuck in Japanese lockdown, Van Gogh’s Sunflowers will not return to UK until next summer
Londoners will have to wait even longer to see the National Gallery’s 60 touring masterpieces
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Wear art inspired by the Met Museum—take the #MetMaskChallenge
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Executed by the Nazis: the story of Vincent van Gogh’s brave great-nephew
This month the Van Gogh family pays tribute to Theodoor, the 24-year-old student who faced a firing squad in 1945
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Van Gogh Museum to reopen on 1 June, but with only a tenth of its usual visitors
Closure is having a catastrophic impact on the finances of the museum, which normally gets half its income from ticket sales
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The astonishing tales of how the Sunflowers survived the Second World War
To mark VE Day, we investigate the fate of Van Gogh’s masterpieces under Hitler and Churchill
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Home sweet home: renting the Yellow House, the high point of Van Gogh’s life
Vincent’s sunny abode had a spare bedroom, awaiting Gauguin’s arrival
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Van Gogh experienced lockdown—how did isolation impact on his art?
The artist once told his sister that isolation was “sometimes as hard to bear as exile”—but was necessary “if we want to work”
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Did Van Gogh cut off his whole ear? Or only a part?
Key witnesses had different memories, so sorting out myth and reality is a challenge—but the truth would give valuable insight into the artist’s psyche
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Jist Gogh Hame—tracksuit-wearing Vincent van Gogh tells Glaswegians to just go home
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A concise guide to Van Gogh’s adult life: how the artist celebrated his birthday over the years
From family gifts of cufflinks and chocolate to his darker days in the asylum, a look at where Vincent was and what he was doing on 30 March each year
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In recent decades 28 Van Goghs have been stolen in the Netherlands—but all have been recovered
Detectives are intensifying their investigation into the latest crime, at Laren’s Singer museum, which was committed this week on the artist’s birthday
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How Van Gogh’s handwritten texts were tragically chopped up
The artist copied poems and hymns into an album that belonged to his London landlady; our investigations reveal that, around 100 years later, an unknown perpetrator cut the pages into pieces in order to make a quick buck
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Birthday heist: Van Gogh painting stolen from Dutch museum on anniversary of artist's birth
The Singer Laren museum in the Netherlands is currently on lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic
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Van Gogh’s trusty pipe: how the artist believed that smoking helped his art
Vincent lay in bed, puffing away and dreamily composing his pictures
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Van Gogh’s theory on Degas’s success with female nudes
A three-volume set of The Letters of Edgar Degas—including ten with references to the Van Gogh brothers—is due to be published in April
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Tacita Dean’s ancestors brought a Van Gogh painting to England in 1896—now she wants to track it down
The UK artist is on the hunt for the Parisian restaurant scene, now with a secretive Texan collector
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Dickinson sells €15m Van Gogh painting at Tefaf Maastricht—the highest value reported sale so far at the Dutch fair
Peasant Woman in front of a Farmhouse, once sold in a farmyard auction for £4, sold to a private collector
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Almost burned on a bonfire and then hidden behind a door for years—rediscovered Van Gogh landscape goes on sale at Tefaf Maastricht
New York’s Hammer Galleries has priced the Paris park scene at $10m-$12m
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Great lovers of Van Gogh: Swiss couple's private collection goes on show in Vienna
The Albertina mounts a display of the Hahnloser’s relatively unknown treasures
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers caught up in Tokyo coronavirus quarantine
Japanese government instructs national art museums to close for two weeks — shutting the door on London’s National Gallery travelling show, on the eve of opening
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British Museum shows its only Van Gogh portrait for the first time
The etched portrait of Dr Gachet, who tended to the artist after he shot himself, was donated by the doctor's son
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A Van Gogh and a Monet: you win one and lose another
The Dutchman’s newly attributed Oslo self-portrait is unveiled in an Amsterdam exhibition, while the Frenchman’s bohemian portrait suffers a downgrading
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Kirk Douglas played Van Gogh in 1950s film Lust for Life: a look at the biopic and the myths it made
The Hollywood star, who died last week aged 103, became famous for his portrayal of the "tortured artist"
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The €15m Van Gogh which was once sold in a farmyard auction for just £4
Now heading to Maastricht, the painting of a peasant cottage will be a highlight of the Tefaf fair
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Wooing Dutch visitors and an impending birthday: the challenges facing Van Gogh Museum's new director
Emilie Gordenker, from the Mauritshuis, will move from the Golden Age to the birth of Modernism when she takes up her role next week
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Nine Van Gogh 'fakes' that have emerged as the real thing
The Oslo self-portrait and other paintings have been authenticated by the artist’s museum
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Not a fake: Van Gogh self-portrait is his only work painted while suffering psychosis, experts say
The newly attributed work is quite unlike Van Gogh’s other 35 self-portraits and reveals an intriguing insight into his mutilated ear
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Is a Van Gogh self-portrait hidden in a London attic?
An intriguing letter suggests that Vincent made a very unusual sale to England
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Want to buy a Van Gogh? Sotheby’s has four works with (relatively) modest estimates
Unseen for 25 years, they all come from a very private American collector
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From surprising sales to emotional discoveries: the Van Gogh stories of 2019
The top exhibitions, books and auction news this year—plus the astonishing tale of the gun
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Two Van Goghs sold from the recovered hoard of an Italian fraudster
One painting was hidden in a Parma cellar, leading to the discovery of the Tanzi Treasure
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Ten myths about Vincent van Gogh
Why stories—from the mutilated ear to the eventual suicide—can distort our view of the art
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A good catch: The Mackerels now looks set to be authenticated as a genuine Van Gogh
The still life in Switzerland’s Reinhart collection was dismissed as a forgery
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Van Gogh's Sunflowers will leave London for over a year as Australian show is added to loan tour
Masterpiece from London's National Gallery is headed for Canberra’s National Gallery of Australia
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Where is the portrait of Dr Gachet? The mysterious disappearance of Van Gogh's most expensive painting
Frankfurt's Städel Museum put a detective journalist on the case
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Two Dutch museums join forces to buy rare, $3m Van Gogh painting at Sotheby's New York
Work acquired by Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Drents Museum in Assen is one of few to survive from the artist's visit to Drenthe
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For sale: two Van Gogh paintings come up at Sotheby’s New York next week
One of the works was looted by the Nazis from Jewish collector Jacques Goudstikker, but is now being sold by his heir after restitution
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Two Van Gogh exhibitions in a single week
After the Frankfurt show opens, another on still lifes comes to Potsdam—17 years after Germany’s last presentation on the artist
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Van Gogh and Germany: Frankfurt mounts best show on the artist in recent years
Städel Museum tells the story of Germany's love affair with the painter, which ended in tragedy with Hitler’s rise to power
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Methodical, well read and—above all—human: what we learn from the myth-busting edition of Van Gogh’s letters
A decade after the publication of Vincent's trove of correspondence, here is how the remarkable project has contributed to scholarship on his art
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Emilie Gordenker appointed new general director of Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum
The current director of the Mauritshuis in The Hague is taking over from Axel Rüger who now leads the Royal Academy of Arts in London
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Arles to Tokyo: Van Gogh exhibitions in 2020 that Vincent aficionados won't want to miss
Detroit’s Van Gogh in America will be the highlight, with more major shows in Amsterdam, Padua, Santa Barbara and Columbus
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The artist whom Van Gogh most admired—and whose work fetched record prices
An exhibition on Millet opens in Amsterdam with the rare loan of The Angelus
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Uncovered: Van Gogh's first art teacher
First photo discovered of Anna Birnie, of Scottish descent, who served as a young governess for eight-year-old Vincent
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Not just a tortured soul: new show shines light on Van Gogh's humour and friendships
Den Bosch exhibition features rarely exhibited documents revealing the artist's personal relationships
ReviewBooks
'The guardian of Vincent’s legacy': new biography details devoted life of Van Gogh's sister-in-law Jo Bonger
Bonger's encounter with Trotsky and her tireless effort to preserve the artist's work are explored in the new book by Hans Luijten
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New discoveries: Paul Signac painted watercolours of Van Gogh’s asylum
Signac, who offered to fight a duel over the Sunflowers, pays homage to his Dutch friend
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Van Gogh's suicide: Ten reasons why the murder story is a myth
All the evidence suggests it was the artist who fired the fatal shot
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Millinery mix up: scholar says Van Gogh Museum has mistaken hatted portraits of Theo and Vincent
Major exhibition at the Noordbrabants Museum in the Netherlands will show latest research in the confusing identity saga as Amsterdam museum renames work
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How a concierge restored 200 Van Gogh paintings, including the Sunflowers
The astonishing tale of Jan Traas, a caretaker and intern conservator in the 1920s, who later worked on Vermeer's Girl with the Pearl Earring
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A once-in-a-lifetime look behind Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
The Van Gogh Museum’s masterpiece has suffered from a 1960s restoration which involved the insertion of three long metal bolts
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Van Gogh’s gun, 'most famous weapon in art history', sells for €162,500
The discovery of the revolver suggests it was suicide, not murder
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Van Gogh’s astonishing week in the asylum, 130 years ago—when he painted an olive grove and a starry night
By coincidence, both pictures ended up at New York’s MoMA, which is now planning a redisplay
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Gauguin blames Van Gogh over ear incident
Little known letter says he feared “a fatal and tragic accident”
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Van Gogh's correspondence about famed Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta unearthed
Largely overlooked postscript suggests surprise friendship between the Van Gogh brothers and the young Belgian
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Big but bland Impressionists lead Christie's sale, with new records for a peachy Cezanne and feline-filled Bonnard
Fresh material from big collections led the $399m New York auction, while mid-tier Monets primed the market for his $55m haystacks work at Sotheby's tonight