Van Gogh’s sunflower paintings may reflect ancient Greek mythology, including the story of Clytie and Apollo, symbolising devotion and the pursuit of light.

An exhibition in Boston celebrates the little known Roulins of Arles, a family that tempered the artist’s depressions and sat for indelible portraits.

When we admire great works of art, we rarely think about who the people depicted on the paintings are. Behind some famous paintings are real lives — romantic, dramatic or even exciting. We decided ...

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), The Potato Eaters, Nuenen, April-May 1885, oil on canvas, 82 cm x 114 cm, Courtesy of Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation) His attempts at social ...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Van Gogh Museum have staged the first show dedicated to Vincent van Gogh's Roulin family portraits.

We know that Van Gogh was forced to paint himself for lack of models: all the self-portraits in his museum in Amsterdam may not show us the faces he most wanted to paint. Unger speculates that Père ...

I decided to recreate a Van Gogh Self portrait from 1887 which he painted during his sojourn in Paris. I wanted to recreate the emotions that Van Gogh felt while painting this self portrait. I ...

X-rays reveal hidden Van Gogh self-portrait Self-portrait was hidden for more than 100 years beneath layers of glue and cardboard.

Van Gogh self-portrait hidden behind another painting A previously unknown self-portrait of Vincent van Gogh has been found behind another of the artist’s paintings in an accidental discovery.

A previously unknown self-portrait of Vincent van Gogh was discovered behind another painting by the artist, the BBC reported. The National Galleries of Scotland made the discovery after the oil ...