But with his move to Arles, in the south of France, in February 1888, the expressive force he'd been searching for at last erupted. Alone in the sun-drenched fields and gaslit night cafés of ...

(Self-Portrait: Three Quarters to the Right) Van Gogh Museum Van Gogh first mentioned his large, ambitious canvas depicting a view of Arles in this letter written June 20, 1888, to Bernard.

Van Gogh arrived in Arles in his mid-30s with an “openness to possibility ... When the artist mutilated his left ear in December 1888, Roulin helped him recover. “Following that incident of ...

He had no idea what would come out of it. When the 34-year-old Van Gogh moved to Arles from Paris in early 1888 hoping to establish a community of artists, he walked around the town’s environs ...

The new exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is a touching collaboration between the MFA and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. When the two respective curators, Katie Hanson, of William and Ann ...

After the artist left Arles, the two remained in contact ... Vincent van Gogh, “Portrait of Marcelle Roulin” (1888) (image courtesy Vincent van Gogh Foundation) Marcelle Roulin at age 67 ...