Marcelle, the daughter, was born around the time van Gogh met the family. As the artist wrote to his sister in July 1888, “I’m now working on the portrait of a postman with his dark blue ...

Van Gogh museum says portrait is only known painting of artist ... Head researcher Louis van Tilborgh compared two paintings from 1887 with similar-looking men in suits set against a blue background.

Now “Van Gogh: the Roulin Family Portraits” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, assembles 14 of the series, contextualized with a few self-portraits and other paintings from the period.

A lonely Van Gogh painted postman Joseph Roulin and his family in a creative frenzy. The portraits, on view at MFA Boston, reveal a wildly immediate inner life.

In Van Gogh’s portraits, he wanted to capture a ‘metaphysical magic’ in his subjects, and in Postman Joseph Roulin (1888), Roulin sits erect, earnest and noble, wearing his postman’s blue ...

It has just been announced that London’s Courtauld Gallery is to hold an ambitious exhibition on Van Gogh’s self-portraiture next spring (3 February-8 May 2022). Curated by the Courtauld’s ...

Only a single portrait photograph of Vincent van Gogh survives, from when he was aged 19. So when we imagine his appearance, we immediately think of his self-portraits. Many of these can now be ...

Unlike in some of the artist’s later self-portraits, Van Gogh’s left ear is clearly visible in the X-ray. He famously cut it off in December 1888 after an argument with fellow artist Paul Gauguin.

Van Gogh’s ‘hidden’ portrait recreated 135 years after being painted ... It shows the two men locked in combat with splashes of red blood against a background of blue strokes.

And they are both taking part in a new exhibition called The Coolest Colour - dedicated to the colour blue - being held at ...

Portrait of the Artist, Vincent van Gogh, 1887 National Museum Cardiff. Are self-portraits the predecessors of modern-day selfies? What if they ... “The Blue Lady was painted in 1874, ...

A new exhibition of self-portraits by Vincent van Gogh in London has received rave reviews from art critics. The show was awarded five stars by The Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Evening ...