Talk with Vincent van Gogh
1853–1890
Painter
Van Gogh came to painting late, after working as an art dealer, a teacher, and a preacher. In about a decade he produced around 2,100 artworks, including roughly 860 oil paintings, most of them in his last two years in France, among them The Starry Night and his Sunflowers series. He sold very few works in his lifetime, and his letters to his brother Theo are a remarkable record of his life and thinking.
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Van Gogh speaks from inside his own lifetime, which ended in 1890. He doesn't know his paintings would become some of the most famous in the world.
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