- Van Gogh made the paintings to decorate his house in Arles in readiness for a visit from his friend and fellow artist, Paul Gauguin.‘The sunflower is mine’...
- Thanks to the preservation of 1000's of letters Van Gogh had written to friends and family, especially to his brother Theo, we have a nearly complete understanding...
- In 1869, Vincent Van Gogh began his job as an intern in the Paris offices of worldwide artwork dealers Goupil & Cie, eventually operating in the Hague branch of...
- Van Gogh famously recorded himself in numerous self-portraits, but he hated photography and supposedly he never sat for a photo as an adult.
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- He was born on the 30th of March, 1853 in the family of the pastor Theodorus van Gogh and his wife, Anna Cornelia Carbentus.
- Van Gogh worked in London and Paris through his earlier life until he was fired in 1876 for not showing interest in his work.
- Kee vos Stricker visited the van Gogh family at Etten after the death of her husband in 1881, bringing her young son Jan with her.
- von gogh His early life seems generally to be unhappy, after a period of working in his uncle’s art dealership, he became frustrated and so became a Protestant...