LONDON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - A leading Dutch expert on Vincent Van Gogh has poured cold water on the theory put forward in a new biography that the Dutch painter did not kill himself but was ...

Christianity had failed him. What next then? Art? Vincent van Gogh’s life as an artist had the most faltering and rudimentary of beginnings in 1880. By 1890 he was dead, by suicide, at the age of 37.

Even more remarkably, major contributions to the appreciation of Van Gogh’s work continue to be made. This is not only because of the astonishing richness and variety of both his inner and outer life, ...

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the actor and the artist come face-to-face, as Willem Dafoe studies a self-portrait of Vincent van Gogh. "It's like a relic, I can't get over that. Once ...

We might sometimes forget that major artists have had to exist as people, too, with all the trials and tribulations that might come before they reach fame. Take, for example, family dynamics. And in ...

Vincent Van Gogh. Penniless, unappreciated, isolated. A gentle soul suffering for his art, misunderstood by all. Fiction. All of it. No artist wears more mythology than Van Gogh. Surprising, since few ...

The creator of “The Starry Night,” “Sunflowers,” “Irises” and many more paintings will take center stage this fall in two very different art exhibits in Columbus. Vincent van Gogh, the brilliant but ...