How the First Vincent van Gogh Piece Was Acquired in the US: Book Excerpt
Blake Gopnik recounts how the Albert Barnes Foundation started its collection of modern art via an excerpt from his book, ...
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Commonalities: A Look at Shared Themes in the Best Books About the Making of Art
All artists struggle with focus, fantasizing and faith, and these books share insight into exactly what it takes to make art. Courtesy the publishers In a culture inundated with the best of the ...
The Art Newspaper3d
Matisse wanted to buy a Van Gogh portrait—instead, his brother bought a bicycle
Matisse, then a 29-year-old struggling artist, discovered Van Gogh’s work at Ambroise Vollard’s gallery in Paris. He fell in ...
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‘A Fire in His Soul’ Review: Van Gogh’s Paris Transformation
Though modern art was long a form of expression that the general public found hard to accept, the work of Vincent van Gogh, almost alone, proved easy to assimilate; in truth he is so universally ...
The Daily Star9d
Prof. Ahsanuzzaman edits first ever Bangla translation of A Memoir of Vincent van Gogh
Prof. Dr Ahmed Ahsanuzzaman from the Department of English and Modern Languages at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) ...
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Van Gogh or Faux? Weeding Out Fakes Is Starting to Take a Toll.
There is no pope, there is no Vatican of van Gogh studies.” Walter Feilchenfeldt, a dealer and scholar in Zurich who has written several books about van Gogh and sometimes disagrees with the ...
The Art Newspaper25d
A Van Gogh drawing—with what is almost certainly the artist's fingerprint—goes to auction at Sotheby's
Van Gogh’s drawing of the Public Garden in Arles will be auctioned by Sotheby’s in London on 4 March, with an estimate of £2m-£3m. The work depicts the garden in Place Lamartine, which lay ...