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Artist's Chair with Pipe Painting ID:: 1944
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Vincent Van Gogh Artist's Chair with Pipe Dec 1888
93 x 73.5cm
National Gallery, London
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Gauguin's Chair with Books and Candle Painting ID:: 1945
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Vincent Van Gogh Gauguin's Chair with Books and Candle Dec 1888
90.5 x 72.5cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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The Courtyard of the Hospital in Arles Painting ID:: 1946
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Vincent Van Gogh The Courtyard of the Hospital in Arles April 1889
73 x 92cm
Oskar Reinhart Foundation, Winterthur
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Wheatfield With Crows Painting ID:: 1947
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Vincent Van Gogh Wheatfield With Crows July 1890
50.5 x 103cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
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Peach Tree in Bloom Painting ID:: 1948
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Vincent Van Gogh Peach Tree in Bloom March 1888
73 x 59.5cm
Rijksmuseum Kroller Muller, Otterlo
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Vincent Van Gogh
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Dutch Post-Impressionist Painter, 1853-1890
Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 ?C 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist. Some of his paintings are now among the world's best known, most popular and expensive works of art.
Van Gogh spent his early adult life working for a firm of art dealers. After a brief spell as a teacher, he became a missionary worker in a very poor mining region. He did not embark upon a career as an artist until 1880. Initially, Van Gogh worked only with sombre colours, until he encountered Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism in Paris. He incorporated their brighter colours and style of painting into a uniquely recognizable style, which was fully developed during the time he spent at Arles, France. He produced more than 2,000 works, including around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches, during the last ten years of his life. Most of his best-known works were produced in the final two years of his life, during which time he cut off part of his left ear following a breakdown in his friendship with Paul Gauguin. After this he suffered recurrent bouts of mental illness, which led to his suicide.
The central figure in Van Gogh's life was his brother Theo, who continually and selflessly provided financial support. Their lifelong friendship is documented in numerous letters they exchanged from August 1872 onwards. Van Gogh is a pioneer of what came to be known as Expressionism. He had an enormous influence on 20th century art, especially on the Fauves and German Expressionists. |
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