Vincent van Gogh

Facts about Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh was a very talented artist who was known for his Impressionist style of work. Take a look at some very important facts about Vincent Van Gogh in connection with his life and paintings.

Hidden Portrait of Woman Found Beneath Van Gogh Painting
A new technique allowed for scientists to bring up the vivid image of a woman’s portrait hidden underneath Van Gogh’s painting "Patch of Grass."

Vincent van Gogh's Biography
It is impressive to look at a life, a rather short one, and see the great impact it had in the world even if it was impregnated with misfortune. Such was the life of Vincent van Gogh, a great painter / artist, and his works are famous and well known all over the world even if in his lifetime he only sold one painting.

Vincent van Gogh - His Life and Art on Canvas
Vincent van Gogh was a talented impressionist painter and influenced modern methods of Expressionism. He created a great multitude of paintings on canvas and other artworks within a decade. When van Gogh painted, he created thick strokes with his brush, and used colour and line for expression.

Tapestry Art: Van Gogh Irises
When Vincent Van Gogh really dug into painting irises, he was looking at them from his bedroom window at the asylum. "Irises" has become one of Van Gogh's most famous works-of-art, and is one of the most famous paintings the world over, today. A true masterpiece created by a man thought to be crazed and not of sound mind.

Experts Fall Out Over Van Gogh's 'last Painting'
Portrait stashed in a bank vault in Athens could be last painting Vincent van Gogh produced

Auction Frenzy Van Gogh Nets £22m
A feeding frenzy at Christie's New York on Tuesday night led to the most profitable Impressionist and modern art sale for 16 years.

A Portrait of the Artist As a Middle-aged Man?
The public will get a chance to decide if a photograph that scientists claim to be a rare image of Vincent van Gogh is really the artist or a simple case of mistaken identity. Van Gogh painted more than 40 self-portraits but there are only two photographs in existence that are widely...

New light on the tragic last days of Van Gogh
Behind a three-storey white house in this village north of Paris, a rickety garden table, its top painted red, is preserved from the elements in a glass cage. Battered and scarred, it is one of the world's best known pieces of furniture, immortalised in Vincent van Gogh's portrait of Dr Paul Gachet, the most expensive painting ever sold.

Unrecognised Van Gogh almost sold for a song
An unsigned oil painting due to be auctioned in Tokyo today, valued at just £50, has belatedly been identified as an obscure work by Vincent van Gogh worth tens of thousands of pounds.

Van Gogh Cat Burglars Beat Hi-tech Alarms - With a Ladder
A pair of thieves equipped with just a ladder, a large piece of cloth and a rope managed to break into Amsterdam's famous Van Gogh museum yesterday and make off with two multi-million-pound canvases by the artist.