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Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dram…

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Born 30 March 1853 · Died 29 July 1890 · Q5582

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in the immense plain against the hills, boundless as the sea, delicate yellow
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I started right away to make a picture for him, to hang in their bedroom, branches of white almond blossom against a blue sky.
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2026· 17 entries

Aug 25, 2026Documented record69% confidence

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t.co: Vincent Van Gogh Landscape Art Gold Monogrammed Notebook

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Aug 25, 2026Documented record69% confidence

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玩具人 TOY PEOPLE: TOYS SPIRITS Unveils "Patisseries d’art Art Masterpiece Dessert Tin Mascot" Capsule Toys Featuring Van Gogh, Monet, and Vermeer Classics!

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Aug 25, 2026Documented record69% confidence

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NW Noticias: ¿Obras de Vincent Van Gogh que se pueden tocar? Sí, solo en el Museo Inmersum

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Aug 25, 2026Documented record69% confidence

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Ad-hoc-news.de: Van Gogh Museum and the life of a painter in slow motion - Ad-hoc-news.de

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Aug 24, 2026Documented record69% confidence

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t.co: Irises Flowers Vincent Van Gogh Art Elegant Name PopSocket

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Aug 24, 2026Documented record69% confidence

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The Stage: The Van Gogh Shogh at EdFringe: Donna Oblongata explores art and value in imaginative show

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Aug 23, 2026Documented record69% confidence

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TVGuide.co.uk: Inside Art: Van Gogh at the Courtauld Gallery on Sky Arts HD: full details and when it's on

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Aug 22, 2026Documented record69% confidence

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EdinburghGuide.com: Vincent van Gogh: Between Worlds, Assembly George Square Studios, Review

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Aug 22, 2026Documented record69% confidence

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IO+: 691 chats with AI Vincent: what Van Gogh tells about innovation

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Aug 15, 2026Documented record85% confidence

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“in the immense plain against the hills, boundless as the sea, delicate yellow”

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Aug 14, 2026Documented record69% confidence

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Theatre Weekly: VINCENT van GOGH: Between Worlds Archives

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Aug 14, 2026Documented record69% confidence

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NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts: The Ups & Downs Of Vincent Van Gogh's Life

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Aug 14, 2026Documented record69% confidence

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logos-pres.md: Van Gogh signed only 16% of his paintings—a study has revealed the reason - logos-pres.md

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Aug 14, 2026Documented record69% confidence

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The Art Newspaper: Why did Van Gogh sign his paintings simply as ‘Vincent’?

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Aug 14, 2026Documented record69% confidence

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The Times of India: Quote of the day by Vincent van Gogh: “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all

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Aug 14, 2026Documented record69% confidence

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Theatre Weekly: Edinburgh Fringe Review: VINCENT van GOGH: Between Worlds at Assembly George Square Studios (Underground)

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Aug 13, 2026Documented record69% confidence

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LymeLine.com: Plein Air, Van Gogh and More at Lyme Art Association

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2025· 1 entry

Jun 17, 2025Reported claimRated In fact, the nationality of the vandals is unknown. No other information about them is disclosed. · StopFake

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StopFake rated the claim “Ukrainian Refugees Broke a Museum Artefact — «Van Gogh’s Сhair»” In fact, the nationality of the vandals is unknown. No other information about them is disclosed..

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2021· 1 entry

Aug 17, 2021Reported claimRated False · AFP Fact Check

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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “'Toil Today, Dream Tonight' was painted by Vincent van Gogh” False.

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2016· 1 entry

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The portrait was housed at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and estimated to be worth over $50 million

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1993· 1 entry

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For $57 million by using funds donated by publisher, diplomat and philanthropist Walter Annenberg

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1957· 1 entry

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Francis Bacon based a series of paintings on reproductions of Van Gogh's The Painter on the Road to Tarascon, the original of which was destroyed during the Second World War

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1952· 1 entry

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And whose descendants still lived (as of 2020) just outside Arles

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1947· 1 entry

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And this has been supported by the psychiatrists Hemphill and Blumer

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1934· 1 entry

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The novelist Irving Stone wrote a biographical novel of Van Gogh's life titled Lust for Life, based on Van Gogh's letters to Theo

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1914· 1 entry

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Jo van Gogh-Bonger had Theo's body exhumed and moved from Utrecht to be re-buried alongside Vincent's at Auvers-sur-Oise

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1912· 1 entry

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The Armory Show, New York in 1913, and Berlin in 1914

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And 1913; the majority were published in 1914

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1901· 1 entry

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A large Van Gogh retrospective was held at the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, which excited André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck, and contributed to the emergence of Fauvism

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1896· 1 entry

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The Fauvist painter Henri Matisse, then an unknown art student, visited John Russell on Belle Île off Brittany

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1892· 2 entries

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Octave Mirbeau wrote that Van Gogh's suicide was an "infinitely sadder loss for art

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1892Source gives the year onlyDocumented record79% confidence

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Émile Bernard organised a small solo show of Van Gogh's paintings in Paris, and Julien Tanguy exhibited his Van Gogh paintings with several consigned from Jo van Gogh-Bonger

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1891· 1 entry

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There was a retrospective exhibition in Brussels

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1890· 5 entries

Jul 29, 1890Documented record95% confidence

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Died 1890-07-29.

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1890Source gives the year onlyDocumented record75% confidence

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Gauguin proposed they form a studio in Antwerp

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Jan 1, 1890Documented record85% confidence

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“I started right away to make a picture for him, to hang in their bedroom, branches of white almond blossom against a blue sky.”

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Jan 1, 1890Documented record85% confidence

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“vast fields of wheat under troubled skies”

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1890Source gives the year onlyDocumented record79% confidence

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Van Gogh appears to have been building an oeuvre, a collection that reflected his personal vision and could be commercially successful

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1889· 2 entries

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His work was described in the journal Le Moderniste Illustré by Albert Aurier as characterised by "fire, intensity, sunshine"

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Jan 1, 1889Documented record85% confidence

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“At last I have a landscape with olives”

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1888· 4 entries

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Van Gogh hoped for friendship and to realise his idea of an artists' collective

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Jan 1, 1888Documented record85% confidence

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“to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime”

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Jan 1, 1888Documented record93% confidence

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Career landmark: self-injury.

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Jan 1, 1888Documented record85% confidence

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“one big [painting] of a cherry tree, which I”

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1887· 1 entry

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André Antoine hung Van Gogh's alongside works of Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, at the Théâtre Libre in Paris; some were acquired by Julien Tanguy

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1886· 2 entries

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Moved to Paris, where he met members of the avant-garde, including Émile Bernard and Paul Gauguin, who were reacting against the Impressionist sensibility

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Two large exhibitions were staged there, showing Pointillism and Neo-impressionism for the first time and bringing attention to Georges Seurat and Paul Signac

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1885· 2 entries

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In Antwerp he had become interested in Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints and had used them to decorate the walls of his studio; while in Paris he collected hundreds of them

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Describes Breton's famous work The Song of the Lark as being "fine"

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1877· 1 entry

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The family sent him to live with his uncle Johannes Stricker, a respected theologian, in Amsterdam

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1876· 1 entry

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Returned home at Christmas for six months and took work at a bookshop in Dordrecht

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1875· 2 entries

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Where he became resentful of issues such as the degree to which the art dealers commodified art, and he was dismissed a year later

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Letters to Theo, Vincent mentions he saw Breton, discusses the Breton paintings he saw at a Salon, and discusses sending one of Breton's books but only on condition that it be returned

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1873· 1 entry

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Was transferred to Goupil's London branch on Southampton Street, and took lodgings at 87 Hackford Road, Stockwell

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1866· 1 entry

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His parents sent him to the middle school in Tilburg, where he was also deeply unhappy

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1864· 1 entry

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Was placed in a boarding school at Zevenbergen, where he felt abandoned, and he campaigned to come home

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1861· 1 entry

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And in turn drew other artists there, including Camille Corot and Honoré Daumier

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1853· 1 entry

Mar 30, 1853Documented record95% confidence

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Born 1853-03-30.

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