Vincent Van Gogh, Self Portrait This is a portrait of the Netherlands' most famous nineteenth-century artist, Vincent van Gogh. His piercing eyes seek out the viewer; the portrait is personal and direct. It is painted in short, firm lines using many colours; a style characteristic of Van Gogh's...

Montmajour, Vincent Van Gogh Year 1888 Technique Ink and chalk on paper/Black chalk, brown and black ink A southern landscape rendered in brown ink, and accentuated here and there with black chalk. The Montmajour cloister at Arles, from which the title comes, can be seen to the left....

...completed near the mental asylum of Saint-Remy, 13 months before Van Gogh's death at the age of 37. Vincent's mental instability is legend. He attempted to take Paul Gauguin's life and later committed himself to several asylums in hopes of an unrealized cure. Van Gogh painted furiously and The...

   Gogh, Vincent (Willem) van (b. March 30, 1853, Zundert, Neth.--d. July 29, 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris), generally considered the greatest Dutch painter and draughtsman after Rembrandt. With Cézanne and Gauguin the greatest of Post-Impressionist artists. He powerfully influenced the...