The impending marriage was not the fundamental cause of Vincent’s mental health crisis, but he was very close to his brother and had ambivalent feelings about the arrival of a spouse

Pollution particles found in Young Woman seated at a Virginal, owned by the Rembrandt collector Thomas Kaplan, are helping to date the work, which only publicly surfaced at auction in 2004

Young Lion Resting, which went on show in Amsterdam this week, could approach a record price for a work on paper at auction next year

Around the world, they are in unusual venues ranging from a Japanese museum in a mountain forest to a Warsaw church dome

Japan wins out, with three separate shows that, together, will probably attract over a million visitors this year

Now owned by New York’s MoMA, the painting of Joseph Roulin is the star loan for a major exhibition opening in Boston

Years later, inspired by Vincent’s paintings, the French artist became a “wild beast”

His ‘Sunflowers’ painting does not make the list—and there are other surprises too

While painting Joseph Roulin and his wife and children, Vincent wrote in great excitement: “I’ve done the portraits of an entire family”

The London institution had a false start as a museum, but is now thriving with its winning combination of hosting temporary exhibitions and art fairs, and renting studio spaces to creatives

At the last minute hundreds of Kiefer’s home-grown sunflower seeds stuck on a huge painting needed to be replaced after they had attracted insects

The sketch reproduces a long-lost painting of the public garden outside the Yellow House

As Birmingham’s peasant woman painting goes on loan to Charleston, we explore the question of its provenance

The picture shows the ward where the artist slept after mutilating his ear—I witnessed the room’s tragic demolition

Specialists and curators on what gathering Thames paintings from around the world revealed

The New York-based LMI Group claims the $50 portrait is a previously unknown work by the Dutch master, perhaps now worth $15m, but the Van Gogh Museum rejects it

A new Dutch book provides the first comprehensive account of how the artist’s work has been targeted by thieves

Both pictures were acquired by the same private collector, they have not left Switzerland for a century

The piece, one side of which is an enamel copy of a 16th-century woodcut, the other side crafted in Ethiopia, reveals how European icons became incorporated into the African country’s traditions

The National Gallery’s blockbuster exhibition, ‘Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers’, provides an unusual opportunity to see how the artist’s works have been framed by their owners

Our review of 2024: record sales, exhibitions, fakes—and tracking down Dr Gachet

This unlikely grouping is part of an astonishing story involving New York’s Guggenheim Museum

This year has been marked by a rising number of politically-motivated attacks on art. But we should not forget the power of art to unite diverse groups of people

Their astonishing 1896 exhibition is now being celebrated by the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands

The painting, which has just gone on display at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum, was previously hidden away in a private collection for over a century

A pair of pictures with this bizarre geological feature have been brought together at London’s National Gallery, on loan from New York

Bought by a British collector, the Dutch landscape was donated to an institution dedicated to Pope John Paul II

Event, which was the first of its kind in the world and now involves more than 20 institutions, is run by museums rather than dealers

Japanese acquisitions have been funded by maker of Benson & Hedges, Winston, Camel and Silk Cut

The sketch of Austin Friars Church throws fresh light on Vincent’s draftsmanship, suggesting he was even more of a late developer as an artist