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

From Mondrian to Rothko, when it comes to hanging a painting, museums don't always get things right first (or even second) time

Plus, the best books on Vincent and the artist's booming immersive experiences

The heirs of a Jewish collector who fled Germany in the 1930s claim that well-documented provenance issues with the painting “La cueillette des olives” have been overlooked by the museum and the Greek foundation that now owns it

The banker's heirs claim that the current owner, which bought "Sunflowers" for a then-record $39.9m at Christie's in 1987, ignored the painting's provenance issues

Vincent’s best-loved paintings are singled out by climate protestors

A major exhibition next year will survey the artist’s fascination with the undulating trees

The etched portrait of Dr Gachet, who treated Vincent after he shot himself, is in the Wellcome Collection

A still life, painted just after Vincent mutilated his ear, holds intriguing clues

A seascape that fetched nearly $3m at Sotheby’s this week was one of the works abandoned in an attic

Previous top price was $82m for a portrait of Dr Gachet

Californian collectors had the taste and cash to buy some of his finest paintings, with stars including Elizabeth Taylor, Edward Robinson and Barbra Streisand

"Jo van Gogh-Bonger: The Woman Who Made Vincent Famous" is an altogether apt biography for the dutiful and determined woman

Coming up at Christie’s and estimated at around $4m, the sketch given to neighbours who doused the fire and saved the Van Gogh family home and collection in 1941

The definitive biography is now published in English—with a fresh explanation as to why the Sunflowers came to London

The environmental group Just Stop Oil says it attacked the painting in response to the UK government’s inaction on the cost-of-living and climate crises

The orchard blossom scene, from the collection of Microsoft founder Paul Allen, is being sold by Christie’s

Klimt discovered Van Gogh in 1903—and took inspiration from the Dutch painter for his early landscapes

US collectors and museums came late to Vincent’s paintings, yet eventually amassed the finest works outside the Netherlands—plus a few embarrassing fakes

And who were the brave collectors, way ahead of their time?

Ahead of Tate Modern’s Cézanne blockbuster exhibition, we investigate the two artists' links

Highlight shows in Chicago, Paris and Amsterdam—plus a 50th birthday celebration for the Van Gogh Museum