Portrait of Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh Painting Reproductions 14 of 18

1853-1890

Dutch Post-Impressionist Painter

Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch painter (Groot Zundert, Brabant, 1853-Auvers-sur-Oise 1890).

Vincent Van Gogh embodied the myth of the misunderstood genius of his time, so much so that his works were ignored in his own time and are today among the most sought-after in the world. He tried to exorcise his inner turmoil through painting. His research into form and color had a lasting influence on the avant-gardes to come.

A pastor's son, Vincent Van Gogh was named after a brother who was stillborn the year before he was born. Four years after his birth, he had another brother, Theodorus (1857-1891), whom he called Theo - and who supported him morally and financially throughout his life.

An unstable child with a talent for drawing, Vincent's uncles included the founder of the Goupil art gallery in Paris, which had numerous branches throughout Europe. He was sent successively to the Hague branch (1869), then to the Brussels and London branches (1873-1876), to learn the art business. Following setbacks in love, he took refuge in mysticism, writing letters to Theo as an outlet for his troubled soul.

After a brief stay in Paris, Van Gogh returned to London and became a schoolteacher in the working-class district of Isleworth. He sensed a true religious vocation, which led him to evangelize the miners of the Borinage region in Belgium. His zeal for evangelism offended the ecclesiastical authorities, who put a stop to it after a year (1879). After several years of solitary wandering, painting took precedence over preaching.

A devotee of Jean-François Millet, Van Gogh devoted himself to the study of landscapes and peasant scenes when he took up oil painting in 1882, on the advice of his cousin by marriage, Anton Mauve (1838-1888).

In Nuenen, near Eindhoven, where he lived for almost two years (December 1883-November 1885), he became familiar with Dutch realism (Potato Eaters, 1885). He then moved to Antwerp to attend the École des Beaux-Arts, where he discovered the work of Peter Paul Rubens. But, put off by the teaching he received, he left again in February 1886 to join his brother in Paris, who took him in at a studio in Montmartre.

Van Gogh frequented the milieu of Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painters (Camille Pissarro, Paul Gauguin, Paul Signac). He joined the studio of Cormon (1845-1924), where he became friends with Émile Bernard and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, who were to exert a clear influence on him. The three friends organized their first exhibition in 1887. They didn't sell any paintings, but they knew that their time had not yet come.

In contact with Gauguin, but also under the influence of Japanese prints, Van Gogh refined his research into color; his palette became lighter and more diversified, his style more flexible, giving rise to experiments in still lifes, landscapes and portraits (Père Tanguy, 1887). To perfect his work, he needed to find skies other than those of Paris. So, in February 1888, he moved to Arles. Dazzled by the light of the Midi, Van Gogh made color the very object of his work, rather than just a component of it. He sought the greatest possible intensity in both tones (such as the yellows in the Sunflower series) and chromatic relationships (yellow/blue, yellow/green, blue/green, red/green): flowers (Peach in bloom, "Souvenir de Mauve", 1888), landscapes (the Crau Plain with the ruins of Montmajour), interiors (the Night Café), portraits (Mousmée in the armchair) are charged with great expressivity.

Living alone among the people of Arles, who were suspicious of this strange outsider, Van Gogh sank into depression. Yet he did not abandon his dream of forming a community of painters. He finally persuaded Gauguin to join him. The master of Pont-Aven arrived in Arles in November 1888 and took up residence in the "Yellow House" - his host's studio.

But he couldn't stand Gauguin's inexpressive nature, and on the evening of December 23, 1888, after a more violent argument than the previous ones, he left for the house. Shortly afterwards, Van Gogh took a knife and cut off part of his left ear, which he then took to a prostitute. Two self-portraits bear witness to this gesture.

Admitted to the Saint-Rémy-de-Provence asylum, where he remained for a year (May 1889-May 1890), Van Gogh devoted himself to a style of painting in which elongated brushstrokes and twisted forms convey the force of his torments (Starry night, 1889). As soon as he was discharged, he had to leave Arles under pressure from the locals, whom he frightened.

Terribly weakened, Van Gogh agreed to go to Auvers-sur-Oise, where Dr. Paul Gachet lived. A doctor, but also an art lover and himself a painter in his spare time, Gachet was a friend of Paul Cézanne, Édouard Manet, Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas. Through Théo Van Gogh, he became aware of Vincent's work, the importance of which he immediately sensed, at the same time as his illness. From then on, he never stopped trying to get him to come to Auvers-sur-Oise, drawing criticism - unfounded at the time - from those who accused him of acting out of self-interest.

A real friendship developed between the two men. Gachet succeeded in establishing a climate of trust around Van Gogh, which had a beneficial effect. The painter painted a first portrait of his benefactor, who, filled with admiration, commissioned a second. Perhaps for the first time in his life, Van Gogh was aware that his talent was recognized and his art understood by a man of quality.

Picking up his brushes again, he spent whole days at his easel, executing several of his masterpieces: "The Church of Auvers-sur-Oise", "View from the bedside" (1890), "Cottages at Cordeville", "Wheatfield with Crows". Here again, color is crucial, but it becomes darker, and forms more tortured, like the painter's mind. His inner pain is the strongest: "There's something inside me: what is it?" he desperately wants to know. He only benefited from the help Gachet was able to give him for three months, and ended up quarrelling with Gachet as well.

On July 27, 1890, while out for a walk, Van Gogh shot himself in the chest and, despite Gachet's care, died two days later. This was the end of an artist who had signed over eight hundred canvases, but who, during his lifetime, sold only one, the "The Red Vineyard", bought in Brussels in 1890.

412 Vincent van Gogh Paintings

Fields near Auvers, 1890 by Vincent van Gogh | Painting Reproduction

Fields near Auvers 1890

Oil Painting
$597
Canvas Print
$60.47
SKU: VVG-12777
Vincent van Gogh
Original Size: 50 x 101 cm
Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria

The Potatoes-Eater, 1885 by Vincent van Gogh | Painting Reproduction

The Potatoes-Eater 1885

Oil Painting
$630
Canvas Print
$57.55
SKU: VVG-12778
Vincent van Gogh
Original Size: 72 x 93 cm
Kroller-Mueller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

The Road to Saint-Remy, 1889 by Vincent van Gogh | Painting Reproduction

The Road to Saint-Remy 1889

Oil Painting
$324
Canvas Print
$49.85
SKU: VVG-12779
Vincent van Gogh
Original Size: 32.5 x 40.5 cm
Private Collection

Self Portrait, 1887 by Vincent van Gogh | Painting Reproduction

Self Portrait 1887

Oil Painting
$415
Canvas Print
$49.85
SKU: VVG-12781
Vincent van Gogh
Original Size: 32 x 23 cm
Kroller-Mueller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Portrait of a Man, 1888 by Vincent van Gogh | Painting Reproduction

Portrait of a Man 1888

Oil Painting
$396
Canvas Print
$62.91
SKU: VVG-12782
Vincent van Gogh
Original Size: 65 x 54.5 cm
Kroller-Mueller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

The Italian: Agostina Segatori, 1887 by Vincent van Gogh | Painting Reproduction

The Italian: Agostina Segatori 1887

Oil Painting
$610
Canvas Print
$92.55
SKU: VVG-12783
Vincent van Gogh
Original Size: 81 x 60 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

Peasant Woman by the Hearth, c.1885 by Vincent van Gogh | Painting Reproduction

Peasant Woman by the Hearth c.1885

Oil Painting
$321
Canvas Print
$49.85
SKU: VVG-12784
Vincent van Gogh
Original Size: 29 x 40 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

Pleasure Gardens at Montmartre, 1886 by Vincent van Gogh | Painting Reproduction

Pleasure Gardens at Montmartre 1886

Oil Painting
$533
Canvas Print
$79.73
SKU: VVG-12785
Vincent van Gogh
Original Size: 49.5 x 64.5 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

The Dance Hall at Arles (Ball in Arles), 1888 by Vincent van Gogh | Painting Reproduction

The Dance Hall at Arles (Ball in Arles) 1888

Oil Painting
$630
Canvas Print
$59.88
SKU: VVG-12786
Vincent van Gogh
Original Size: 65 x 81 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

Two Little Girls, 1890 by Vincent van Gogh | Painting Reproduction

Two Little Girls 1890

Oil Painting
$484
Canvas Print
$65.21
SKU: VVG-12787
Vincent van Gogh
Original Size: 51.2 x 51 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

Portrait of Father Tanguy, c.1887/88 by Vincent van Gogh | Painting Reproduction

Portrait of Father Tanguy c.1887/88

Oil Painting
$599
Canvas Print
$82.79
SKU: VVG-12788
Vincent van Gogh
Original Size: 65 x 51 cm
Private Collection

Park of the Saint-Paul Hospital, 1889 by Vincent van Gogh | Painting Reproduction

Park of the Saint-Paul Hospital 1889

Oil Painting
$390
Canvas Print
$78.93
SKU: VVG-12789
Vincent van Gogh
Original Size: 64.5 x 49 cm
Private Collection

Marguerite Gachet in the Garden at Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890 by Vincent van Gogh | Painting Reproduction

Marguerite Gachet in the Garden at Auvers-sur-Oise 1890

Oil Painting
$430
Canvas Print
$63.18
SKU: VVG-12790
Vincent van Gogh
Original Size: 46 x 55 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

Sheaves of Wheat, 1890 by Vincent van Gogh | Painting Reproduction

Sheaves of Wheat 1890

Oil Painting
$610
Canvas Print
$49.85
SKU: VVG-12791
Vincent van Gogh
Original Size: 50.5 x 101 cm
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA

Portrait of Madame Augustine Roulin and Baby Marcelle, c.1888/89 by Vincent van Gogh | Painting Reproduction

Portrait of Madame Augustine Roulin and Baby Marcelle c.1888/89

Oil Painting
$629
Canvas Print
$59.20
SKU: VVG-12792
Vincent van Gogh
Original Size: 92.4 x 73.5 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA

Still Life with a Bouquet of Daisies, 1886 by Vincent van Gogh | Painting Reproduction

Still Life with a Bouquet of Daisies 1886

Oil Painting
$506
Canvas Print
$59.43
SKU: VVG-12793
Vincent van Gogh
Original Size: 41.6 x 57.2 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA

Factories at Clichy, 1887 by Vincent van Gogh | Painting Reproduction

Factories at Clichy 1887

Oil Painting
$497
Canvas Print
$93.98
SKU: VVG-12794
Vincent van Gogh
Original Size: 53.7 x 72.7 cm
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri, USA

Corner in Voyer-d'Argenson Park at Asnières, 1887 by Vincent van Gogh | Painting Reproduction

Corner in Voyer-d'Argenson Park at Asnières 1887

Oil Painting
$629
Canvas Print
$91.49
SKU: VVG-12795
Vincent van Gogh
Original Size: 59.4 x 81.3 cm
Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut, USA

Self Portrait at the Easel, c.1887/88 by Vincent van Gogh | Painting Reproduction

Self Portrait at the Easel c.1887/88

Oil Painting
$610
Canvas Print
$58.10
SKU: VVG-12796
Vincent van Gogh
Original Size: 65.5 x 50.5 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Along the Seine, 1887 by Vincent van Gogh | Painting Reproduction

Along the Seine 1887

Oil Painting
$400
Canvas Print
$56.46
SKU: VVG-12797
Vincent van Gogh
Original Size: 49 x 66 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Basket of Pansies on a Small Table, 1887 by Vincent van Gogh | Painting Reproduction

Basket of Pansies on a Small Table 1887

Oil Painting
$384
Canvas Print
$64.34
SKU: VVG-12798
Vincent van Gogh
Original Size: 46 x 56 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Café Table with Absinth, 1887 by Vincent van Gogh | Painting Reproduction

Café Table with Absinth 1887

Oil Painting
$336
Canvas Print
$49.85
SKU: VVG-12799
Vincent van Gogh
Original Size: 46.2 x 33.3 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Garden with Courting Couples: Square Saint-Pierre, 1887 by Vincent van Gogh | Painting Reproduction

Garden with Courting Couples: Square Saint-Pierre 1887

Oil Painting
$625
Canvas Print
$50.54
SKU: VVG-12800
Vincent van Gogh
Original Size: 75 x 112.5 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

La Berceuse (Portrait of Madame Roulin), c.1888/89 by Vincent van Gogh | Painting Reproduction

La Berceuse (Portrait of Madame Roulin) c.1888/89

Oil Painting
$630
Canvas Print
$97.87
SKU: VVG-12801
Vincent van Gogh
Original Size: 91 x 72 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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