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Van Gogh, paintings and drawings: a special loan exhibition, a fully digitized exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries, which contains material on this painting (see index) The Potato Eaters (1885), oil on canvas, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; The Potato Eaters (1885), oil on canvas, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Van Gogh may have been inspired by the description of Jean-François Millet's biographer, Alfred Sensier of Potato Planting: "one of his [Millet's] most beautiful works" of a married couple "on a wide plain, at the edge of which is a village is lost in the luminous atmosphere; the man opens the ground and the woman drops in the seed potato ...
Van Gogh did not begin painting until his late twenties, and most of his best-known works were produced during his final two years. He produced more than 2,000 artworks, consisting of around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches. In 2013, Sunset at Montmajour became the first full-sized Van Gogh painting to be newly confirmed since 1928 ...
The most comprehensive primary source on Van Gogh is his correspondence with his younger brother, Theo.Their lifelong friendship, and most of what is known of Vincent's thoughts and theories of art, are recorded in the hundreds of letters they exchanged from 1872 until 1890. [8]
The high-end art market seems to be a great option for investment these days. On Tuesday, Vincent Van Gogh's painting, L'Allée des Alyscamps sold at a Sotheby's auction for $66.3 million to a ...
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Lust for Life (1934) is a biographical novel by Irving Stone about the life of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh and his hardships. [1] It was Stone's first major publication, and is largely based on the collection of letters between Vincent van Gogh and his younger brother, art dealer Theo van Gogh.
Head of an Old Farmer's Wife in a White Hat was painted by Vincent van Gogh around 1884 while he was living with his parents in the town of Nuenen, about a year before he finished The Potato Eaters. [1] The painting is 63 × 48 centimeters. [2] [3] According to the Kröller-Müller Museum, the painting depicts Gordina de Groot, a local farmer ...