Adventures with Van Gogh
Adventures with Van Gogh is a weekly blog by Martin Bailey, our long-standing correspondent and expert on the artist. Published every Friday, his stories range from newsy items about this most intriguing artist to scholarly pieces based on his own meticulous investigations and discoveries. © Martin Bailey
The London dealer who sacked his young assistant Van Gogh went on to sell his art
Christie’s uncovers records revealing that Obach & Co marketed a landscape drawing in 1910
Revealed: Van Gogh landscape once owned by Yves Saint Laurent coming up for sale, valued at $45m
Christie’s is to offer the never-exhibited painting in a New York auction in May
We know Van Gogh’s face from his self-portraits, but how did his friends see him?
Other views of Vincent, captured by his fellow artists, reproduced together online for the first time
Van Gogh’s depiction of two lovers—sliced out of a landscape painting—comes up for sale
Sotheby’s will auction the surviving picture of the strolling couple on 2 March, estimated at £7m-£10m
How did the only painting sold by Van Gogh in his lifetime end up in Russia?
Revelations about The Red Vineyard, just conserved at Moscow’s Pushkin Museum
London's Van Gogh self-portraits show is coming—here are my six favourite paintings
The Courtauld exhibition will be the first ever with works from Vincent’s full career, opening on 3 February
The mind-blowing Van Gogh gallery that never was
What happened to the 1923 plan for a Grand Museum to house the collection of Helene Kröller-Müller
New York’s Metropolitan Museum buys four extremely rare Van Gogh prints
Vincent wanted to sell the set for under a dollar as “art for the people”—the museum will have paid several million
Van Gogh back on the road: major exhibitions coming in 2022
With shows in London, Vienna, four American cities and of course Amsterdam—I choose the highlight of the year
What a year for Van Gogh: surprise discoveries, record prices and a boom in immersive experiences
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)
Van Gogh gets a facelift: conservation of self-portrait to be revealed in London
The Kröller-Müller Museum painting will be unveiled in the Courtauld Gallery’s exhibition
The secret behind Van Gogh’s satirical herring still life: they represent policemen
Vincent told his artist friend Paul Signac that the fish stood for the gendarmes who hassled him after he mutilated his ear
Revealed: Larry Ellison, the world’s seventh richest person, has collected at least four Van Goghs
The Oracle Corporation co-founder owns the painting that hung above J.F. Kennedy’s hotel bed on the morning of his assassination—and the president’s final telephone call was about Van Gogh
Van Gogh and friends: new show in Ohio puts Vincent alongside masters such as Rembrandt, Hokusai and Monet
But is it one exhibition or two? Surprisingly, Through Vincent’s Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources will be quite different when it travels next year to California
Four Van Goghs go for $161m in one evening in New York—double their Christie’s estimates
For the artist who failed to sell during his lifetime, there is now a surge in the market for Vincent’s late paintings
The astonishing survival of the farmhouse depicted in Van Gogh’s newly unveiled watercolour
Vincent’s picture of wheatstacks is coming up at Christie’s on 11 November—yours for around $25m
Van Gogh’s favourite artists: how did they influence his own work?
Steven Naifeh, co-author of the best-selling biography, writes about the painters Vincent admired—and collects their pictures
Another insect discovered in a Van Gogh painting—and this time it has left behind a trail
Show opening in Dallas and travelling to Amsterdam reveals findings from three-year international research project into Vincent's olive grove pictures
Stunning $30m Van Gogh watercolour resurfaces at Christie’s New York following complex behind-the-scenes deal
The auction house—which estimates the painting at $30m—helped broker a deal between the seller and the descendants of two Jewish families who had it in the Nazi era
Van Gogh’s Potato Eaters: Mistake or Masterpiece?
Amsterdam museum opens exhibition on Vincent’s early painting of a peasant family gathered for a meal
Van Gogh goes East: for the first time, Sotheby’s is to auction his work in Hong Kong
A luxuriant still-life painting of gladioli flowers should sell for over $10m
70 paintings in 70 days: Van Gogh’s astonishing achievement at the end of his life
A dramatic sunset over a château was one of Vincent's last landscapes—and one of his largest
New Van Gogh discovery: first version of despairing man that was bought for £6—and then hidden away for more than a century
The artist titled the drawing "Worn out" in English because he wanted to work for a London publisher
Where was Van Gogh originally buried? We still don’t know
In an extraordinary scene, reminiscent of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Vincent’s skull was held aloft and moved in 1905
Van Gogh’s mysterious Wheatfield with Crows—what does it really mean?
Long assumed to be Vincent’s final painting, this foreboding scene is also full of life
Caught: the drug baron who claims to have bought €20m stolen Van Gogh paintings for 'their artistic value'
Arrested in Dubai, the story of Mafia suspect Raffaele Imperiale confirms long-suspected links between the drugs trade and art theft
Secrets of the two unknown Van Gogh Sunflowers
One has been always been hidden away in private collections and will fetch a fortune when it emerges; the other was destroyed by an American bomb
Ten surprising facts about Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, his greatest masterpiece
From a brothel garden to Nazi leader Hermann Göring’s fake—all part of the sunflower story
Exuberant Van Gogh landscape—featuring his beloved olive and cypress trees—could well make $40m at Christie's New York
Always hidden away in private collections, the painting will probably sell to a someone in the Far East
Discovered: a very early photograph of the trees in Van Gogh’s final picture, painted just hours before he fired the fatal shot
On the anniversary of Vincent’s death, his picture can be seen as “a suicide note in colour”