NONFICTION: Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith (Random House) Money and recognition were among Vincent van Gogh’s many painful obsessions. His brother Theo, an art dealer, ...

“A Power Seething,” the subtitle of Julian Bell’s short, fervent biography of Vincent van Gogh, comes from a letter Vincent sent his brother Theo in 1882. Although Vincent’s new calling as an artist ...

A new Vincent van Gogh biography is causing waves in the art community for its claim that the famed Dutch artist was accidentally shot by drinking companions, rather than a suicide. In their book Van ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A leading Dutch expert on Vincent Van Gogh has poured cold water on the theory put forward in a new biography that the Dutch painter did not kill himself but was accidentally shot. ...

He had “a sun in his head and a thunderstorm in his heart.” These words about French painter Eugene Delacroix could as easily have been applied to Vincent van Gogh. From his turbulent emotional life, ...

The writers of a new biography of Vincent Van Gogh say the artist may not have committed suicide, but was shot by a teenage boy. Co-authors Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith offer their new theory ...

Vincent van Gogh’s sister-in-law Jo Bonger led a colourful life, including an encounter with Leon Trotsky in New York at the time of Russian Revolution. Although best known as a tireless promoter of ...

The newly-released book Van Gogh: The Life, which argues that the famous artist did not kill himself, is casting doubts upon the ending of a new biopic about the artist The producers of a new film ...

A new Vincent van Gogh biography is causing waves in the art community for its claim that the famed Dutch artist was accidentally shot by drinking companions, rather than a suicide. In their book Van ...

The producers of a new film about Vincent Van Gogh are rethinking its ending in the wake of a definitive biography that doubts the long-held belief that the Dutch painter took his own life. "Van Gogh" ...