Vincent van Gogh’s haunting “Portrait of Dr. Gachet,” completed six weeks before the artist’s suicide in 1890, was bought Tuesday night for $82.5 million by Gallery Kobayashi of Tokyo in a sale at ...

Van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr Gachet (June 1890), which is among his greatest paintings, finally seems to have been tracked down. It was last seen in 1990, when it sold for $82.5m, making it then the most ...

The official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama were revealed yesterday. I like the former president’s—trendy, sure, yet tasteful and accomplished. It is certainly better than Chuck Close’s 9ft by ...

The French don't have the world's greatest sense of humor. Certainly no one was laughing last week after Japanese industrialist Ryoei Saito suggested his plans for the two most famous paintings in his ...

As Vincent van Gogh lay dying in a dingy room at a French inn, the painting above his cast-iron bed was “The Fields,” a scene of the undulating wheat plains where the artist had contemplated life and ...

The story of the tormented artist who shot himself in the very same cornfields that he painted so memorably was too good not be told. By the time the German art critic and novelist Julius Meier-Graefe ...

To the world, Vincent van Gogh was the quintessential starving artist, who never received recognition in his lifetime and committed suicide at 37 thinking himself a failure. That he is now established ...