At the toughest time of his life, the painter was supported by an unlikely soulmate, Joseph Roulin, a postman in Arles. It ...

Following hospitalization for a severed ear, Van Gogh created this "keepsake" for his doctor, which soon ended up in a ...

Mr. Unger tentatively puts the crisis down to bad food, heavy smoking ... which affected Theo and perhaps also Vincent, can manifest in the mouth. Alongside Van Gogh’s day-to-day travails ...

On 23 December, 1888, the day that Vincent van Gogh mutilated his ear and presented ... asking only to be paid in food and drink. The friendship soon opened the door to four further sitters ...

Though modern art was long a form of expression that the general public found hard to accept, the work of Vincent van Gogh, almost alone, proved easy to assimilate; in truth he is so universally ...