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The deep friendship behind Van Gogh’s 26 portraits of one family
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’ Review: A Provençal Clan in Vibrant Paint
Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts offers the first major exhibition devoted to these canvases, featuring 14 of the works Van Gogh ...
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Van Gogh’s Final Years Come to Life in ‘The Roulin Family Portraits’
The exhibition reveals Van Gogh’s intense devotion to painting—even through deep sorrow and unbearable hallucinations.
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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. Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of Joseph Roulin (1889), detail. Collection of the Museum of Modern ...
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When—and why—did Van Gogh paint a pair of crabs?
One of the more surprising of Van Gogh’s still lifes is ... of his later paintings from Arles. Art historians who plump for Arles cite a letter from Vincent to his brother Theo on 7 January ...