The artist gave prominence to the color during a happy period that produced some of his most famous works. But it can have many different associations, a new exhibition shows.

At Van Gogh’s funeral, on 30 July 1890, his friends recalled yellow as his favourite colour. Emile Bernard wrote that sunflowers were arranged around his coffin. Yellow represented “the symbol of the ...

For just 15 months in 1888 and ’89, Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) lived in the Yellow House in Arles, a small town in the south of France. Marked with both creative highs and personal lows, this key ...

Van Gogh arrived in Arles, France, in 1888, eager to escape the bustle of Paris. Installed in the Yellow House on Place Lamartine, he found some measure of peace: “There are some really beautiful ...

AMSTERDAM — Vincent van Gogh may have been quite fond of painting his own portrait, but he was far fussier about his real-life image. For years, only two photographs of his face were known to exist.

Getting a ticket to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is not easy – Vincent’s posthumous fame as a symbol of the individualist avant-garde has elevated him to a position of near-mythic status, ...

The hospital in Arles where Vincent van Gogh stayed after he cut off his ear (photograph by the author for Hyperallergic) Vincent van Gogh had big dreams for his stay in the town of Arles, for the ...

He really did gogh the extra mile. “The Starry Night,” the 1889 hallmark artwork by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, is remarkably congruent to the astronomic principles of our sky, atmospheric ...

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,” “Almond ...

Bold brushstrokes, swirling textures, and vibrant florals come together in this expressive painting inspired by the energy and emotion of Vincent van Gogh. A celebration of color, passion, and the ...

A crowdfunding campaign is rallying support from Vincent van Gogh fans to preserve and protect the painter's grave in Auvers-sur-Oise, France. Graves of Vincent van Gogh and Theo van Gogh in ...

An oil canvas painting believed to have been created by artist Vincent van Gogh and was purchased at a garage sale for $50 while later valued at $15 million may be a fake, according to a new analysis.