Van Gogh’s Creation of The Potato Eaters
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…
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…
T here 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…
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.