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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The definitive biography for decades to come.” —Leo Jansen, curator, the Van Gogh Museum, and co-editor of Vincent van Gogh: The Complete Letters Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, who galvanized readers with their Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Jackson Pollock, have written another tour de force—an exquisitely detailed, compellingly readable portrait of Vincent van Gogh. Working with the full cooperation of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Naifeh and Smith have accessed a wealth of previously untapped materials to bring a crucial understanding to the larger-than-life mythology of this great artist: his early struggles to find his place in the world; his intense relationship with his brother Theo; and his move to Provence, where he painted some of the best-loved works in Western art. The authors also shed new light on many unexplored aspects of Van Gogh’s inner world: his erratic and tumultuous romantic life; his bouts of depression and mental illness; and the cloudy circumstances surrounding his death at the age of thirty-seven. Though countless books have been written about Van Gogh, no serious, ambitious examination of his life has been
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Naifeh, Steven, Smith, Gregory White
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781588360472
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Art, Technology
- Rating
- 4.09 / 5 (14,046 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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