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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Paint 26 Portraits of a Postman and His Family While Staying in the South of France?
In the late 1880s, Vincent van Gogh spent two years in southern France. Though the period was famously tumultuous for the ...
'A very deep bond of friendship': The surprising story of Van Gogh's guardian angel
At the toughest time of his life, the painter was supported by an unlikely soulmate, Joseph Roulin, a postman in Arles. It ...
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Did Vincent van Gogh get Gordina pregnant? Christie’s is selling her portrait
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation), Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo and National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh On 20 October 1885 Gordina, who was unmarried, had a son ...
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You’ve got mail: pathbreaking exhibition on Van Gogh’s postman opens shortly in Boston, then heads to Amsterdam
Van Gogh: The Roulin ... By 1 December 1888 Vincent was able to report back to his brother, Theo: “I’ve done the portraits of an entire family, the family of the postman whose head I did before—the ...