
Adventures with Van Gogh
Adventures with Van Gogh is a weekly blog by Martin Bailey, our long-standing correspondent and expert on the artist. Published every Friday, his stories range from newsy items about this most intriguing artist to scholarly pieces based on his own meticulous investigations and discoveries. © Martin Bailey
Van Gogh exhibitions coming up in 2024, a blockbuster and a surprise
London’s National Gallery will top the bill, with a spectacular display of paintings from Provence
Van Gogh’s sunflowers blossom in Japan
The masterpiece is celebrated in a show at Tokyo’s Sompo Museum
Where did Van Gogh shoot himself?
It may have been near the inn where he stayed—not in a more distant wheatfield
Van Gogh paints by the River Seine, a stepping stone to Provence
A revelatory exhibition in Amsterdam on Vincent’s landscapes from the outskirts of Paris—along with those of his avant-garde colleagues
Experience Van Gogh’s final weeks—through a blockbuster exhibition in Paris
After seeing the Musée d’Orsay show, continue on to Auvers, to enter the room where Vincent lived and died
Van Gogh would have loved to see the National Gallery’s exhibition on Hals
We spotlight eight paintings in the London show that Vincent singled out for special praise
Revealed: Van Gogh’s unknown period, exploring the landscape of the remote north
The first exhibition on Vincent’s visit to Drenthe, where art consoled him after a failed love affair
Recovering the stolen Van Gogh: the museum director recalls the emotional moment
Seized in a violent raid in 2020, returned in a blue Ikea bag—now being bought back from the insurer
Brighter than a thousand suns: atomic scientist Robert Oppenheimer and his three Van Goghs
The awesome nuclear test explosion at the heart of the new film seems prefigured by Vincent’s sunrise
Step inside Van Gogh’s London bedroom
It's 150 years since Vincent moved to Brixton, where he fell in love
In the spotlight: the only collector who bought a Van Gogh during Vincent’s lifetime
Anna Boch is celebrated with an ambitious exhibition, opening in Ostend
What paintings did Van Gogh hang above his bed?
“Pictures within pictures” reveal more about life in the Yellow House
How Van Gogh inspired his artist friends to exchange self-portraits
But Vincent was then shocked when Paul Gauguin’s painting arrived at the Yellow House
Ten surprises about Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’
Vincent and his brother Theo once considered the painting a failure—and it only got its name in the 1920s
Van Gogh’s astonishingly bold painting of the church at Auvers, now on show in Amsterdam
The picture exudes spirituality, but after the artist shot himself, its priest refused to help bury him
Why is Van Gogh so popular?
An in-depth interview with the director of the Van Gogh Museum, Emilie Gordenker, on its 50th anniversary
Van Gogh’s cypresses are the focus of an exhibition opening at the Met in New York
How the flamelike trees came to rival the sunflowers as a signature motif
Inspired by the Seine: an ambitious exhibition with Van Gogh’s Parisian landscapes opens in Chicago
Only one photograph of Vincent as an adult survives, drinking at a riverside café—but he turns his back on the camera
Van Gogh’s spectacular output: 60 paintings in six weeks, but he could not sell them
Amsterdam exhibition reveals more about Vincent’s final days in Auvers
A Van Gogh Montmartre scene with sunflowers is coming up at Sotheby’s—and could fetch $30m
Looted by the Nazis, after the war it was returned to the Rothschild family
The three top Van Gogh exhibitions of the year all open this May
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
Van Gogh was an early admirer of Vermeer: 'celestial blues and yellows.. I can’t paint as beautifully as that'
And a surprise: Vincent’s brother Theo helped sell two paintings by the Delft master
Van Gogh's thwarted dream: a painting by the artist blocked from display in a French café
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
How Van Gogh’s drawing skills were once trumped by a 16-year-old girl
Discovered: a sketch by a pastor’s daughter, who sat beside Van Gogh when they both depicted a woman peeling potatoes
How Van Gogh’s 'Terrace of a Café at Night'—with its starry sky—was inspired by a friend’s painting
The work’s dramatic colour contrast echoes a Parisian street scene by Louis Anquetin, now on show at London’s National Gallery
Van Gogh stars in 'After Impressionism' show at London's National Gallery
Loans include four rarely seen paintings from private collections, with a major rediscovery
Half of Van Gogh’s most expensive paintings have sold to Chinese collectors
The burgeoning growth of the East Asian market pushes up prices for the artist’s work
Van Gogh painted his lyrical Almond Blossom to herald the coming of spring
This picture was given to hang above his two-week-old nephew’s crib—and later survived raucous pillow fights
The Van Gogh phenomenon: our top ten most popular stories on the artist
After 200 posts of the "Adventures with Van Gogh" blog, an intriguing look back at the most-read posts
Did Vincent van Gogh get Gordina pregnant? Christie’s is selling her portrait
Coming up for auction on 28 February for £1m-£2m, the painting has been hidden in a private collection for 120 years