I know, it is a bit rude to discuss private lives of people. But when it comes to the Impressionists, knowing their relationships, connections, sudden twists of fate, and often difficult characters ...

'I should like,' Vincent van Gogh wrote to his sister Wilhelmina shortly before his death, 'to paint portraits which will appear after a century to the people who are living then as apparitions . . .

Astonishingly, the British Museum is displaying its only Van Gogh portrait for the first time—in an exhibition entitled French Impressions. The etched portrait of Dr Paul Gachet, who tended the artist ...

LEAVING VAN GOGH By Carol Wallace Spiegel & Grau, $25, 268 pages While Carol Wallace was researching her masters thesis in art history in 2005, she came across the name of Dr. Paul Gachet, a French ...

Although he merely dabbled with paint and brush, French physician Paul Gachet occupies a significant place in art history. The intriguing novel “Leaving Van Gogh” imagines what the good doctor might ...

Behind a three-storey white house in this village north of Paris, a rickety garden table, its top painted red, is preserved from the elements in a glass cage. Battered and scarred, it is one of the ...

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Among the highlights of the Kunstmuseum Basel is Van Gogh’s Marguerite Gachet at the Piano (1890), depicting the daughter of the doctor who treated the artist after he had shot himself. But what is ...