The institution’s chair George Osborne has described the total number of items returned as a result that “few expected”, though more than 800 remain missing

Tate’s show on Expressionism reminds us that Vincent was “the father of us all”

Bacon believed the Dutch artist deformed reality “to make it more real”

Three weeks before a planned London gallery show of his paintings of Waterloo Bridge, Charing Cross Bridge and the Houses of Parliament, the “perfectionist” Impressionist pulled out, dissatisfied with the state of his canvases

Fluttering butterflies enliven the greenery, but also remind us of the transience of life

As the London museum celebrates its 200th birthday, its director speaks to The Art Newspaper about plans to reopen the Sainsbury Wing in May 2025, rehang the collection and consider work on a further extension

A new biography reveals that the director of the Kröller-Müller Museum had earlier acquired eight Van Goghs for his personal collection—and he may have sold the finest one to Hitler’s deputy, Hermann Göring

Kojiro Matsukata’s still life was destroyed in a London fire and his “Van Gogh’s Bedroom” was seized during the Second World War

The Danish specialist Ittai Gradel, who first raised alarm about thefts of antiquities from the London museum, and earlier returned 61 gems bought separately on eBay, approached the Thorvaldsens Museum to help in repatriating a second, larger set of stolen pieces

The optimistic April paintings were produced at an extremely challenging time for the artist

They include an Amsterdam townscape painted an hour or so before the artist visited the newly opened museum in 1885

These works deceive readers, giving a false impression about the artist

It is almost certain, and this could well be a reason behind Vincent’s suicide

Vincent borrowed a casserole from his brother’s kitchen for the painting, which has just been acquired by Rotterdam’s art museum

The Art Newspaper has uncovered new details about the subject of the artist's 1881 painting

"One of the most challenging issues I've faced”, says museum director Alex Farquharson on dealing with the controversial 1927 artwork

An American almost bought the painting for London’s National Gallery in 1924—but it sold to a French buyer and is now coming to the UK on loan

Musée d’Orsay brings together works by Monet, Renoir, Degas and others first seen in a landmark 1874 exhibition

It’s not only the art, but also his extraordinary life story

Ethiopian Heritage Authority asked to contact vendor to request restitution of battle trophy taken following British expeditionary force's punitive siege of Maqdala in 1868

The gallery couldn’t afford the price, of just under £20,000

Emergency repairs are being made to several galleries, just over a year after Assyrian reliefs were threatened by serious condensation

An export licence has now been deferred a second time to allow the UK museum to raise funds

Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum this week publishes a catalogue focused on Bernard‘s rarely seen drawings featuring prostitution and sexual allegories

As a major exhibition on the Dutch Old Master opens at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, a divide has emerged among specialists over the total number of autograph works

Research reveals that the artist began the work as a winter scene and transformed it into a spring landscape

Disagreement centred over whether the painting, looted in 1868 and later sold to a private collector in Portugal, should be bought by the government and returned to Ethopia

Woman Sewing was inspired by a soulful English poem, “The Song of the Shirt”

The portrait of Moses surfaced in Paris in 2022 and will form part of a loan exhibition at Waddesdon Manor in March

The portrait of Gordina, whom Vincent was accused of getting pregnant, is worth around £5m