Holland

To Theo. Nuenen, Monday, 6 April 1885.I plan to make a start this week on that thing with the peasants around a dish of potatoes in the evening, or — …

Van Gogh’s financial difficulties were largely due to his inability to sell his artwork during his lifetime. Despite producing over 2,000 artworks, he only managed to sell a few paintings.

Many people aren’t aware that Van Gogh was not always an artist; in fact, he worked in several different fields before starting a career as a post-impressionist.It’s enough to state, …

There will always be someone with a grudge or with an opinion that they feel worthy of violence and vandalism.These acts of destruction or defacement have targeted some of the …

Among a group of art lovers not long ago the conversation turned to Vincent van Gogh’s letters to his brother Theo, which his sister-in-law, Mrs. J. van Gogh-Bonger, was busily and painstakingly arranging and annotating for publication in three heavy volumes.

Vincent van Gogh could reach his home across this square in half a minute – that house in funny, narrow Tollbridge Alley. It is a little old alley in which there are some condemned houses.