A few appeared in 19 the majority were published in 1914. After both had died, Theo's widow Johanna arranged for the publication of some of their letters. Theo kept all of Vincent's letters to him Vincent kept a few of the letters he received. Vincent van Gogh in 1873, when he worked at the Goupil & Cie gallery in The Hague His brother, Theo (pictured right, in 1878), was a life-long supporter and friend. Today, Van Gogh's works are among the world's most expensive paintings to have ever sold, and his legacy is honoured by a museum in his name, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which holds the world's largest collection of his paintings and drawings. He attained widespread critical and commercial success over the ensuing decades, and is remembered as an important but tragic painter whose troubled personality typifies the romantic ideal of the tortured artist. His reputation grew in the early 20th century as elements of his style came to be incorporated by the Fauves and German Expressionists. As he only became famous after his suicide, he came to be seen as a misunderstood genius in the public imagination. Van Gogh was commercially unsuccessful during his lifetime, and he was considered a madman and a failure.
His depression persisted, and on 27 July 1890, Van Gogh is believed to have shot himself in the chest with a revolver, dying from his injuries two days later. After he discharged himself and moved to the Auberge Ravoux in Auvers-sur-Oise near Paris, he came under the care of the homeopathic doctor Paul Gachet. He spent time in psychiatric hospitals, including a period at Saint-Rémy. His friendship with Gauguin ended after a confrontation with a razor when, in a rage, he severed part of his own left ear. Van Gogh suffered from psychotic episodes and delusions and though he worried about his mental stability, he often neglected his physical health, did not eat properly and drank heavily.
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During this period he broadened his subject matter to include series of olive trees, wheat fields and sunflowers. His paintings grew brighter as he developed a style that became fully realised during his stay in Arles in the South of France in 1888. As his work developed he created a new approach to still lifes and local landscapes. In 1886, he moved to Paris, where he met members of the avant-garde, including Émile Bernard and Paul Gauguin, who were reacting against the Impressionist sensibility. His early works, mostly still lifes and depictions of peasant labourers, contain few signs of the vivid colour that distinguished his later work. His younger brother Theo supported him financially the two kept a long correspondence by letter. He drifted in ill health and solitude before taking up painting in 1881, having moved back home with his parents. He turned to religion and spent time as a Protestant missionary in southern Belgium.
As a young man, he worked as an art dealer, often traveling, but became depressed after he was transferred to London.
Not commercially successful, he struggled with severe depression and poverty, eventually leading to his suicide at age thirty-seven.īorn into an upper-middle-class family, Van Gogh drew as a child and was serious, quiet, and thoughtful. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life. Vincent Willem van Gogh ( Dutch: ( listen) 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history.
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