But Vincent was then shocked when Paul Gauguin’s painting arrived at the Yellow House

Vincent and his brother Theo once considered the painting a failure—and it only got its name in the 1920s

The picture exudes spirituality, but after the artist shot himself, its priest refused to help bury him

An in-depth interview with the director of the Van Gogh Museum, Emilie Gordenker, on its 50th anniversary

How the flamelike trees came to rival the sunflowers as a signature motif

Only one photograph of Vincent as an adult survives, drinking at a riverside café—but he turns his back on the camera

The two exhibitions are the first to highlight the artist’s productive final months in Auvers

Amsterdam exhibition reveals more about Vincent’s final days in Auvers

Looted by the Nazis, after the war it was returned to the Rothschild family

Shows in Amsterdam, Chicago and New York break new ground, presenting the artist’s finest work done on the outskirts of Paris and in Provence

And a surprise: Vincent’s brother Theo helped sell two paintings by the Delft master

Discovered: a sketch by a pastor’s daughter, who sat beside Van Gogh when they both depicted a woman peeling potatoes

While the parties have reached an agreement, the museum says it spent $100,000 on its defence and that the injunction against it sets a dangerous precedent

The work’s dramatic colour contrast echoes a Parisian street scene by Louis Anquetin, now on show at London’s National Gallery

Loans include four rarely seen paintings from private collections, with a major rediscovery

The burgeoning growth of the East Asian market pushes up prices for the artist’s work

This picture was given to hang above his two-week-old nephew’s crib—and later survived raucous pillow fights

Restaurant builds on the artist’s legacy by coaching people with mental health issues, disabilities and learning difficulties

After 200 posts of the "Adventures with Van Gogh" blog, an intriguing look back at the most-read posts

Coming up for auction on 28 February for £1m-£2m, the painting has been hidden in a private collection for 120 years

"Choosing Vincent" celebrates the Van Gogh Museum’s 50th anniversary

Vincent and his young English friend Harry Gladwell read the book cover-to-cover in their Paris lodgings—possibly praying to avoid the temptations of Montmartre

We uncover the tangled tale of the painting controversially sold off by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1972 and now in an Athens museum

A judge had previously dismissed the lawsuit brought against the Michigan museum in a dispute over the canvas “The Novel Reader”

Madame Jeanne Calment, who lived to be 122, recalled meeting the artist as a child

Plus, Singapore’s art hub ambitions and Grace Lau's project for Chinese New Year

A Brazilian collector had sought to bar the museum from returning the artwork after its blockbuster Van Gogh exhibition closes

Bought for a Japanese museum in 1987, the masterpiece has just been claimed by the heirs of a Jewish Berlin banker

He was arrested in Philadelphia in March 2022 after evading authorities for three days following the violent attack at the Museum of Modern Art in New York

The Van Gogh Museum is celebrating its 50th anniversary—and everyone is invited