A lonely Van Gogh painted postman Joseph Roulin and his family in a creative frenzy. The portraits, on view at MFA Boston, ...

“Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits” comprises twenty works ... He wrote in his last year, “I am now trying to recover like a man who meant to commit suicide and, finding the water ...

What, one could legitimately ask, did this lonely man need from the Roulins? The question intrudes on what seems most affecting and almost sacred about Van Gogh’s Roulin family portraits.

Zalewski started the show immediately in character, walking through the door in the coat matching the one Roulin was wearing in the portrait ... an old man. Zalewski speaks of Van Gogh buying ...

“Gauguin created his own persona and established his own myth as to what kind of a man ... van Gogh. Bridgeman Art Library International This glazed ceramic head, 1889, is a self-portrait ...

At the heart of this show are 14 of the 26 portraits Van Gogh made of Joseph Roulin and his family, along with works by ...

At the beginning of 1888, Vincent van Gogh, about to turn 35 years old, moved from Paris, where proximity to the Impressionists had expanded his abilities as a painter, to the Provençal town of ...

By Ephrat Livni Auvers-sur-Oise, a village near Paris famed as an artist’s paradise, is also where Vincent Van Gogh spent his final days and it has long drawn tourists to walk in the tortured ...