The most comprehensive primary source on van Gogh is his correspondence with his younger brother, Theo. … See more

Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on 30 March 1853 in Groot-Zundert, in the predominantly Catholic province of North Brabant in the Netherlands. He was the oldest surviving child of Theodorus van Gogh (1822… See more

Van Gogh drew and painted with watercolours while at school, but only a few examples survive and the authorship of some has been challenged. When he took up art as an adult, he began at an elementar… See more

After van Gogh's first exhibitions in the late 1880s, his reputation grew steadily among artists, art critics, dealers and collectors. In 1887, André Antoine hung van Gogh's alongside works of Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, … See more

During the Nazi period (1933–1945) a great number of artworks by van Gogh changed hands, many of them looted from Jewish collectors who were forced into exile or murdered. Some of these works have disappeare… See more