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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Paint 26 Portraits of a Postman and His Family While Staying in the South of France?
The artist met Joseph Roulin, a 47-year-old postal worker, in the late 1880s. The series of artworks will be reunited at ...
'A very deep bond of friendship': The surprising story of Van Gogh's guardian angel
At the toughest time of his life, the painter was supported by an unlikely soulmate, Joseph Roulin, a postman in Arles. It ...
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Matisse wanted to buy a Van Gogh portrait—instead, his brother bought a bicycle
Matisse, then a 29-year-old struggling artist, discovered Van Gogh’s work at Ambroise Vollard’s gallery in Paris. He fell in ...
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The ten most expensive Vincent van Gogh paintings
It is one of the series of spring blossom paintings which Van Gogh made soon after his arrival in Arles. It now stands as a record price for a Van Gogh painting, until the next great masterpiece ...
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'A very deep bond of friendship': The surprising story of Van Gogh's guardian angel
A rare figure of stability during Van Gogh's mentally turbulent two years in Arles, in the South of France, Roulin ensured that he received care in a psychiatric hospital, and visited him while he ...
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Amsterdam: Anselm Kiefer & Vincent van Gogh – Mariella Guzzoni
The Van Gogh Museum and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, collaborating for the first time on a common project, present ...
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12 art exhibits to explore this spring
From pastoral landscapes at The Clark to the visionary art of Minnie Evans at the MFA, this season's art exhibits embrace the ...
The Melbourne teen tearaway now feted in Paris – and the NGV
Life-changing offers, a Provencal farmhouse and now, a retrospective at the National Gallery of Victoria: the charmed world ...