A book and exhibition will reveal surprising facts about some of the artist’s best-loved motifs

And why was “Vincent’s Chair” sold to London’s National Gallery in the 1920s, while “Gauguin’s Chair” was hidden away?

Although his paintings now fetch millions, during his lifetime he perhaps ended up pricing them too high

Vincent painted this powerful work just outside the walls of his asylum

Ferdinand Marcos, the former president, and his wife Imelda owned one of Vincent’s peasant scenes. Did it end up in Japan?

These five missing paintings might still survive—possibly looted and secreted away

Vincent’s note to his artist friend Emile Bernard is to be included in an exhibition of the Springer Collection at Madrid’s Thyssen Museum

Of course Sunflowers is included, along with some surprises—and another on the way

Peach Trees in Blossom was inspired by Vincent’s love of Japanese prints

Why did Vincent paint “Poplars near Nuenen” on top of an earlier picture of a church? And was the final picture touched up after he discovered Impressionism in Paris?

The show “Van Gogh in America” opens at the Detroit Institute of Arts in October

Vincent writes philosophically about his mental illness, a year after mutilating his ear

The artist’s imprint was probably left when he carried the picture back to the asylum

Vincent’s beloved bloom will eventually flourish again in the war-torn country

Vincent declared that a cartoon in Punch magazine was greater than Holbein's Dance of Death

Christie’s uncovers records revealing that Obach & Co marketed a landscape drawing in 1910

Christie’s is to offer the never-exhibited painting in a New York auction in May

Other views of Vincent, captured by his fellow artists, reproduced together online for the first time

London gallery says it never meant to "present an insensitive or dismissive attitude" to mental health issues

Sotheby’s will auction the surviving picture of the strolling couple on 2 March, estimated at £7m-£10m

Plus, Van Gogh’s self-portraits in London, and the story of when Dalí met Freud

Revelations about The Red Vineyard, just conserved at Moscow’s Pushkin Museum

The Courtauld exhibition will be the first ever with works from Vincent’s full career, opening on 3 February

What happened to the 1923 plan for a Grand Museum to house the collection of Helene Kröller-Müller

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

Vincent told his artist friend Paul Signac that the fish stood for the gendarmes who hassled him after he mutilated his ear