His family also suggested that he become an accountant or a barber
Julian Schnabel’s new film on Van Gogh is based on questionable assumptions
Vincent painted At Eternity’s Gate, the title of the film premiering in Venice, when he was at the asylum
The museum as well as the Mauritshuis in The Hague have stopped collaborating with the oil company by "mutual decision"
Van Gogh drawing had been folded in half in 1945 to fit inside a suitcase
A new blog by Martin Bailey
Roderic O’Conor and the Moderns: Between Paris and Pont-Aven opens at National Gallery of Ireland
New book argues that artist bought Japanese prints “not for pleasure but to deal in them”
Show tells the stories behind seven great works that have disappeared and the creation of new digital facsimiles
The Art Newspaper's senior correspondent Martin Bailey is the co-curator of the exhibition
Unearthing of Montmartre sketch leads to authentication of second work
Survey of Dutch master’s admiration for, and influence on, Japanese art is most ambitious yet
We survey the top five results in key markets, from Old Masters to Post-war and contemporary
Two-year transformation, starting next summer, will open up the London gallery’s historic Great Room
Pent-up demand for top material kicks off New York's key auction week, with a $81.3m Van Gogh and records for Léger, Magritte, Man Ray and Vuillard
Insect was presumably already dead as paint shows no signs of a struggle to escape
Exhibition including 124 works is largest in Europe and America in almost 30 years
From Cate Blanchett performing artists' manifestos to an animated Van Gogh biopic
The exhibition, on until 25 April, illustrates his obsession with mountainous landscapes and invites comparison with other Expressionist masterpieces
Everything for the armchair art lover, at the flick of a switch
Fondation Vincent van Gogh assembles the surviving paintings in this series
The top twenty has Cézanne at the top with a new record from Sotheby's
Many new, middle-aged, collectors, say Christie’s
Van Gogh fakes controversy continues
Admired by Van Gogh and an enormously successful artist in his lifetime, Herkomer was a polymath and man of action
The Van Gogh drawing and Hans von Marées painting were part of a large collection which was forcibly auctioned
The show gives the Musée d’Orsay’s verdict on its own questioned Van Goghs and draws attention to problems with other articles from the Gachet Collection
Last July, The Art Newspaper broke the news that at least 45 Van Gogh paintings were suspect. This is what has happened since
“Sunflowers” back in bloom