The picture exudes spirituality, but after the artist shot himself, its priest refused to help bury him

An in-depth interview with the director of the Van Gogh Museum, Emilie Gordenker, on its 50th anniversary

How the flamelike trees came to rival the sunflowers as a signature motif

Only one photograph of Vincent as an adult survives, drinking at a riverside café—but he turns his back on the camera

Amsterdam exhibition reveals more about Vincent’s final days in Auvers

Looted by the Nazis, after the war it was returned to the Rothschild family

Shows in Amsterdam, Chicago and New York break new ground, presenting the artist’s finest work done on the outskirts of Paris and in Provence

And a surprise: Vincent’s brother Theo helped sell two paintings by the Delft master

A plan to show the €75m “Garden at Auvers” in the village inn where the artist died has been halted at the last minute, although hopefully temporarily

Discovered: a sketch by a pastor’s daughter, who sat beside Van Gogh when they both depicted a woman peeling potatoes

The work’s dramatic colour contrast echoes a Parisian street scene by Louis Anquetin, now on show at London’s National Gallery

Loans include four rarely seen paintings from private collections, with a major rediscovery

The burgeoning growth of the East Asian market pushes up prices for the artist’s work

This picture was given to hang above his two-week-old nephew’s crib—and later survived raucous pillow fights

After 200 posts of the "Adventures with Van Gogh" blog, an intriguing look back at the most-read posts

Coming up for auction on 28 February for £1m-£2m, the painting has been hidden in a private collection for 120 years

"Choosing Vincent" celebrates the Van Gogh Museum’s 50th anniversary

Vincent and his young English friend Harry Gladwell read the book cover-to-cover in their Paris lodgings—possibly praying to avoid the temptations of Montmartre

We uncover the tangled tale of the painting controversially sold off by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1972 and now in an Athens museum

Madame Jeanne Calment, who lived to be 122, recalled meeting the artist as a child

Bought for a Japanese museum in 1987, the masterpiece has just been claimed by the heirs of a Jewish Berlin banker

The Van Gogh Museum is celebrating its 50th anniversary—and everyone is invited

Plus, the best books on Vincent and the artist's booming immersive experiences

Vincent’s best-loved paintings are singled out by climate protestors

New York’s Met plans a major show opening next May, with some of his greatest landscapes of Provence

The etched portrait of Dr Gachet, who treated Vincent after he shot himself, is in the Wellcome Collection

A still life, painted just after Vincent mutilated his ear, holds intriguing clues

A seascape that fetched nearly $3m at Sotheby’s this week was one of the works abandoned in an attic

Previous top price was $82m for a portrait of Dr Gachet

Californian collectors had the taste and cash to buy some of his finest paintings, with stars including Elizabeth Taylor, Edward Robinson and Barbra Streisand