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
The story of an unknown register of patients is in my “Starry Night” book, out in paperback this month
The x-ray will be displayed in a lightbox in the forthcoming exhibition A Taste for Impressionism at National Galleries of Scotland
“Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers” at the National Gallery will be presented in themes, tracing the story of his stay in Provence
Star loans include The Bedroom, Garden of the Asylum and—of course—the exhibition will show the museum's own Sunflowers
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