Art History Van Gogh’s Radiant Portraits of a Postman’s Family Get a Rare Reunion The works are now the subject of a first-of-its-kind exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

Roulin became a confidant, diplomat and crucial sitter. Over the next half year, van Gogh painted 26 portraits of Roulin, his wife, Augustine, and their three children. (Theo he painted only once.) ...

Van Gogh Museum Rules $50 Garage Sale Painting Is Not a $15 Million Masterpiece A high-tech analysis conducted by a data science firm claimed the work was painted by the Post-Impressionist in 1889.

Vincent van Gogh, “Postman Joseph Roulin” (1888) (© Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) “A head something like that of Socrates, almost no nose, a high forehead, bald pate, small grey eyes, high ...

After van Gogh’s suicide, the painting passed to his brother Theo, then to Theo’s wife, Johanna, who sold it in 1897 for 300 francs (about $58 at the time).

The pope saw Van Gogh’s image of the sower, like Vigeland’s, as a message of hope. That message, to him, fits with the theme of hope of The Jubilee Year proclaimed by Leo’s predecessor, Francis.

In 1889, Vincent van Gogh committed himself to a psychiatric asylum in Southern France, where he spent a turbulent year creating roughly 150 paintings, including masterpieces such as “Irises ...