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An exhibition in Boston celebrates the little known Roulins of Arles, a family that tempered the artist’s depressions and sat ...
Van Gogh’s Cypresses Previews May 16; opens May 22-Aug. 27, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave., 212-535-7710; metmuseum.org. Deborah Solomon is an art critic and biographer who is ...
Van Gogh spent the last days of his life in Auvers-sur-Oise, a village on the outskirts of Paris. While he was there, he painted Tree Roots (1890), believed to be his final work before he took his ...
Vincent van Gogh, “Postman Joseph Roulin,” 1888. ... In the same way, Augustine Roulin is more than his wife, more than a mother. Each member of the family, in other words, ...
(THE CONVERSATION) In his first general audience in Rome, Pope Leo XIV referred to Vincent van Gogh’s painting “Sower at Sunset” and called it a symbol of hope. A brilliant setting sun illuminates a ...
The book explores author Elizabeth Barks Cox's search for meaning, which found guidance through the writings and paintings of Vincent Van Gogh ...
Josien van Gogh is Vincent’s great-grandniece; her grandfather was the son of Theo, ... My grandfather traveled to the U.S. with his wife, but his mother came as well.
Video released by a museum in Verona, Italy shows a tourist sitting on and breaking a crystal-covered chair, which was inspired by Vincent Van Gogh’s 1888 painting, titled “Van Gogh’s Chair.” ...
English-speakers now have the best opportunity to discover the life of Vincent van Gogh’s sister-in-law Jo Bonger, who preserved and promoted the artist's work. Two years ago, the first ...
In fact, she’s a longtime fan of Vincent van Gogh’s work and has several prints in her home. Her two sons even gave her a Lego set of “The Starry Night” for Mother’s Day.
Van Gogh, who had endured many weeks of isolation, knew then that he had his model. Roulin had “a head something like that of Socrates,” Vincent wrote to his brother Theo, “almost no nose, a ...