Yup. I’ve gone back to the letters; specifically the Thames and Hudson ‘Vincent van Gogh, A Life in Letters’ which beautifully and skilfully presents 76 of the 820 surviving missives. Chapeau to the editors – predictably all senior figures at the van Gogh Museum of Amsterdam – who a)...
A Tormented Mind: Vincent van Gogh's Mental Illness Reflected in His Self-Portraits On a beautiful summer day in July 1890 Vincent van Gogh, now recognized as one of the world's most gifted painters, went down into the open country of Auvers, France and shot himself in the heart with a...