When only one anonymous bidder was left, the crowd began to cheer. Vincent Van Gogh’s “Portrait of Dr. Gachet” sold for a groundbreaking $82.5 million, the highest price ever paid for a work ...

Over the years, Portrait of Dr. Gachet has become one of Vincent van Gogh's most recognizable works. But beneath the brushstrokes, there may be a mystery of jealousy, fraud, and the death of a legend.

Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr Gachet disappeared after it was sold at Christie’s in 1990, when it fetched $82.5m, then the highest price for any painting at auction. The buyer was a ...

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The innkeeper, Ravoux, summoned the village doctor and van Gogh requested that his personal doctor, Paul-Ferdinand Gachet, come as well. After examining the patient, the doctors concurred that it ...

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Van Gogh’s “Portrait of Dr. Gachet,” painted in 1890. Credit...Fine Art Images/Heritage Images, via Getty Images Supported by By Michael Forsythe Graham Bowley and Elisabetta Povoledo When ...

Camille Pissarro had recommended he be assessed by Dr Paul Ferdinand Gachet, who practised in Paris, but who had a home in Auvers. It was to his house that van Gogh came when he first arrived ...

and under the watchful eye of Paul Gachet, a homeopathic doctor with an interest in art and mental wellbeing. Over the course of the next two months, Van Gogh produced no fewer than 74 paintings ...

His doctor and mentor, Paul Gachet, a gendarme, and his brother Theo were summoned the following day. They could do little. Van Gogh died shortly after one o’clock on the morning of July 29.