Person1857 – 1891

Theo van Gogh

Vincent’s younger brother, an art dealer in Paris who supported him with money and letters all his life; he died six months after Vincent

Where they went

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1885Van Gogh’s The Potato Eatersrelated figure
Living at his parents’ house in Nuenen, Van Gogh painted a peasant family eating potatoes by lamplight — his first major work, in dark colours.
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1886 – 1888Van Gogh Finds Colour in Parisrelated figure
Joining his brother Theo in Paris, Van Gogh met Impressionism and Japanese prints, and his dark painting turned to bright colour and short brushstrokes.
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1890The Last Days at Auvers and Van Gogh’s Deathrelated figure
Having painted more than seventy works in his last seventy days at Auvers-sur-Oise near Paris, Van Gogh died in July 1890, aged 37 — he had sold only a handful of paintings in his lifetime.

Vincent van Gogh1853 – 1890
Dutch painter who in little more than ten years made over 2,000 works, some 860 of them oil paintings, whose vivid colour and brushwork shaped modern art

Vincent van Gogh1853 – 1890
How a pastor’s son who decided at 27 to become a painter moved from the dark fields of Holland to the colours of Paris and the sun and stars of southern France, leaving over 2,000 works in ten years