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

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 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

“Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers” at the National Gallery will be presented in themes, tracing the story of his stay in Provence

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

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