Vincent van Gogh's “Irises” (1889) was painted during his stay in a psychiatric clinic after he suffered a mental breakdown. (all images courtesy Getty, unless otherwise noted) A painting conservator ...

On May 8, 1889, painter Vincent van Gogh checked himself into a psychiatric hospital near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, during a major mental health crisis. The hospital director, Théophile Peyron, ...

A fragment of pine pollen found within Van Gogh’s Irises has helped locate the place where the flowers flourished, at the back of the walled garden in the asylum where the artist stayed for a year.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition Van Gogh: Irises and Roses is on display though August 16. Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) brought his work in Provence to a close with exuberant bouquets of ...

Director Julian Schnabel set out to make a film about Vincent van Gogh that could express his own relationship to painting. Schnabel is a gifted painter and visual artist, who was inspired to make a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Sunflowers”, “The Night Café”, “Chair” — the paintings that Vincent van Gogh produced in Arles between 1888 ...

Vincent Van Gogh was obsessed with the pigments in his paints, and he knew as much or more about their composition and vulnerability as many of his contemporaries. So it is a tragic irony that many of ...

No one can deny the artistic genius of Dutch Post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh, whose masterworks are among the most famous and easily recognizable paintings in the world. Nevertheless, the ...