Van Gogh entered the Saint-Paul-de Mausole Asylum near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, after a mental breakdown in late 1888. He painted The Starry Night based on the view from his second-story ...

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Painter Julian Bell’s new biography, “Van Gogh: A Power Seething,” is a respectful account of the life of Vincent van Goh, an artist whose considerable torments did not thwart his genius.

To the world, Vincent van Gogh was the quintessential starving artist, who never received recognition in his lifetime and committed suicide at 37 thinking himself a failure. That he is now ...

That biography of Vincent van Gogh more than anything else etched into history the suicide in the wheat field version of how he died. It starred Kirk Douglas as the troubled artist.

Van Gogh. The Life. Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith. Random House: 953 pp., $40. Vincent Van Gogh is an extraordinary artist about whom everything seems to be known.

A leading Dutch expert on Vincent Van Gogh has poured cold water on the theory put forward in a new biography that the Dutch painter did not kill himself but was accidentally shot.

This week, Deborah Soloman on a new biography of Vincent Van Gogh; Ginia Bellafante on the latest selection of the Big City Book Club; the Times’s national legal correspondent, John Schwartz ...