Soothed by the safety and routine of a psychiatric ward in Saint-Remy, Van Gogh produced 150 paintings including three self-portraits. The first of these concludes its display at the Norton Simon ...

In art and life, Van Gogh “needed depth, something that spoke to his heart, that relieved his loneliness and reassured him he was still part of the human community,” says Unger. Misunderstood in ...

When the innkeeper looked in on the artist, alarmed by his groans, he found van Gogh doubled over in pain from a self-inflicted gunshot ... course meals and painting portraits of the doctor ...

One of the most sad and damaging self-portraits ever is Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear’. It was painted after he cut off a part of his own ear following a fight with ...

Though modern art was long a form of expression that the general public found hard to accept, the work of Vincent van Gogh ... that the bulk of his self-portraits date from his time in Paris ...