VAN GOGH

Bold strokes of geniusThe amazing work of a tormented soulVincent van Gogh's story is one of the most ironic in art history. He livedan unhappy and difficult life during which his work received almost noappreciation—finally killing himself by a bullet to the chest, sogreat was his despair—and is now widely considered one of the mostimportant painters of all time, his works fetching record prices of tens ofmillions of dollars at auction. This comprehensive study of Vincent vanGogh (1853-1890) represents a rarity in art history: a detailed monographon his life and art combined with a complete catalogue of his 871paintings. These volumes also reproduce most of van Gogh's paintings incolor.