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

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

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

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

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

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

Ambitious shows to open in Boston, Amsterdam, Tokyo...

Gauguin then went on to make a ceramic self-portrait with bleeding ears

We name the London collector who parted with the painting

Vincent described his friend as having “a big, bearded face, very Socratic”

A vase of summer sunflowers in a late autumn scene proved a giveaway

Seized by Hitler's deputy, Hermann Göring, the picture disappeared in mysterious circumstances during the Second World War—but could it survive?

Acquired by the arms dealer Emil Bührle, both have been on loan to a Zurich museum

“Moored Boats”, the “gem in the crown of the Bourbon collection”, will be auctioned in Hong Kong

As Vincent wrote to his brother, “life happens … in the garden, it isn’t so sad”

The author Michael Lobel argues that Vincent was more focused on industrial pollution

At today’s prices, few museums are able to purchase paintings by Vincent—the artist who failed to sell his own work

His purple flowers have now faded to blue, as revealed during research for a Getty exhibition in October

A highly personal still-life painting featuring a pot, milk jug and cups offers an insight into daily life in the Yellow House

Tate’s show on Expressionism reminds us that Vincent was “the father of us all”

Bacon believed the Dutch artist deformed reality “to make it more real”

Fluttering butterflies enliven the greenery, but also remind us of the transience of life

A new biography reveals that the director of the Kröller-Müller Museum had earlier acquired eight Van Goghs for his personal collection—and he may have sold the finest one to Hitler’s deputy, Hermann Göring

Kojiro Matsukata’s still life was destroyed in a London fire and his “Van Gogh’s Bedroom” was seized during the Second World War