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Artist: Vincent van Gogh
In January 1889, a week after leaving hospital, Vincent van Gogh painted himself with his ear bandaged, a fur cap on his head, standing before a canvas on an easel and a Japanese print. It is a self-portrait about both a recent crisis and a determination to keep painting.
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
A docent-led reading of Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night, painted at Saint-Rémy in June 1889. The tour follows the predawn sky, the moon, Venus, the cypress, and the village, and explains how Van Gogh fused observed and imagined views of Saint-Rémy to build a night scene that is both astronomical and visionary.
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
A docent's reading of Vincent van Gogh's 1888 night scene at the Place du Forum in Arles. The supplied record identifies the artist, title, date and setting, and credits the painting to the Kröller-Müller Museum; the account below keeps that modest evidence base visible and treats the imagery in the picture as the main subject for interpretation.
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh's The Siesta shows two peasants asleep on hay at midday. It is a copy after Jean-François Millet, part of van Gogh's series of copies after that earlier French painter, and it belongs to the collection of the Musée d'Orsay.
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
A gallery guide to Vincent van Gogh's The Night Café, painted in Arles in 1888: a café interior at night, with a green billiard table at its centre, a landlord standing behind it, and drinkers slumped at the tables. The lamps burn as rings of yellow and orange, and the tilted floor and red walls give the room its unsettling glare.
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
A gallery walk through Van Gogh's Arles sunflowers: fifteen blooms at every stage of life, painted in August 1888 to welcome Paul Gauguin, and read here through the National Gallery's own account of the picture.
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