Vincent wanted to sell the set for under a dollar as “art for the people”—the museum will have paid several million

With shows in London, Vienna, four American cities and of course Amsterdam—I choose the highlight of the year

From insects trapped in paint and Vincent's support of a brass band to the scene depicted in his final picture—plus it was suicide (not murder)

The Kröller-Müller Museum painting will be unveiled in the Courtauld Gallery’s exhibition

Revelations in new book about an attic discovery throw fresh light on Vincent’s decision to become an artist

The newly attributed work is quite unlike Van Gogh’s other 35 self-portraits and reveals an intriguing insight into his mutilated ear

The still life in Switzerland’s Reinhart collection was dismissed as a forgery

Still life at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, is authenticated after decades hidden in storage

All the evidence suggests it was the artist who fired the fatal shot

The revolver discovered by a farmer in an Auvers field comes up for auction on 19 June

A story of changing wall colours, a pair of pillows, wartime bombs and the hunt for a lost bed

New exhibition at Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum is a unique opportunity to see Vincent’s correspondence, normally locked away in a vault

Vincent lay in bed, puffing away and dreamily composing his pictures

The artist once told his sister that isolation was “sometimes as hard to bear as exile”—but was necessary “if we want to work”

A decade after the publication of Vincent's trove of correspondence, here is how the remarkable project has contributed to scholarship on his art

The childhood image that was assumed to be of Vincent is now believed to depict his brother Theo