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Baart de la Faille. Jacob Baart de la Faille (1 June 1886 – 7 August 1959) compiled the first catalogue raisonné of the work of Vincent van Gogh, published in 1928.The catalogue was revised and republished by an editorial committee in 1970, and this version is considered to be the definitive catalogue of van Gogh's work.
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 ...
Self Portrait, Paris 1887, Van Gogh Museum. List of drawings by Vincent van Gogh is an incomplete collection of drawings by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) that form an important part of his complete body of work. The listing is ordered by year and then by catalogue number. While more accurate dating of Van Gogh's work is often ...
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]
Red Cabbages and Garlic (F374) is an oil painting on canvas by Post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh in Paris in 1887. The painting was formerly known as Red Cabbages and Onion until 2023, when the name was changed upon observation of the bulbs by a chef. [1] It is currently held at the Van Gogh Museum. [2]
In May 1889 Van Gogh voluntarily entered the asylum of St. Paul near Saint-Rémy in Provence. [2] [3] There Van Gogh had access to an adjacent cell he used as his studio. He was initially confined to the immediate asylum grounds and painted the world he saw from his room, such as ivy covered trees, lilacs, and irises of the garden.
Houses at Auvers is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh.It was created towards the end of May or beginning of June 1890, shortly after he had moved to Auvers-sur-Oise, a small town northwest of Paris, France.
Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr. (January 28, 1902 – August 15, 1981) was an American art historian and the first director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. From that position, he was one of the most influential forces in the development of popular attitudes toward modern art; for example, his arranging of the blockbuster Van Gogh exhibition of 1935, in the words of author Bernice Kert ...