Van Gogh’s pictures only occasionally come onto the market and, not surprisingly, they fetch huge sums. The odd one is sold privately through a dealer, usually very discreetly—but in a typical ...

Six weeks before his death in 1890, van Gogh painted a portrait of his physician Paul Ferdinand Gachet. The doctor’s melancholic demeanor, described by the artist himself as "the heartbroken ...

Paul Gauguin: I'm talking about women, man. Women. I like 'em fat and vicious and not too smart. Nothing spiritual either. To have to say 'I love you' would break my teeth. I don't want to be loved.

A great behind-the-scenes look at the work and process of artist Amy Sherald in these two videos from Art21. In her studio in New Jersey, artist Amy Sherald paints portraits that tell a story about ...

Nowadays it would be incomprehensible to use a portrait by Vincent van Gogh to block a hole in a chicken coop, but that’s exactly what the family of one sitter—doctor Félix Rey—did for a ...

Despite the years of research and thousands of dollars spent, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam says the painting sold at a Minnetonka garage sale is not one of the artist's works.

Attributing a work to the artist generally requires authentication by the Van Gogh Museum, but lawsuits and an influx of requests have made it reassess that role. By Nina Siegal Reporting from ...

Most Van Gogh paintings in public collections are just where you might expect to see them, in major art galleries and the museum devoted to the artist in Amsterdam. But there are some pictures ...

In the late 1880s, Vincent van Gogh spent two years in southern France. Though the period was famously tumultuous for the Dutch artist, it was also remarkably productive: He befriended Joseph ...

At the toughest, most turbulent time of his life, the Post-Impressionist painter was supported by an unlikely soulmate, Joseph Roulin, a postman in Arles. A new exhibition explores this close ...

A lot of really cool LEGO sets aimed at adults have come out in recent years. These are expensive builds meant to be fun to put together and for display. One such build that has been popular for ...

Olive Trees With Yellow Sky and Sun, oil on canvas, 1889. Van Gogh painted several of his most famous works while at the asylum, including his Iris series and The Starry Night. In May of 1889, in ...