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Vincent van Gogh:
- Almond Branch in Bloom -- 1000 pcs, Vincent van Gogh
- Cafe at Night -- 1000 pcs, Vincent van Gogh
- Café at Night -- 1500 pcs, Vincent van Gogh
- Café at Night -- 2000 pcs, Vincent van Gogh
- Crown Imperials in a Copper Vase -- 1000 pcs, Vincent van Gogh
- Farmer at Sunset -- 1000 pcs, Vincent van Gogh
- Fields -- 2000 pcs, Vincent van Gogh
- Fields of Grain -- 1000 pcs, Vincent van Gogh
- Garden of Daubigny -- 1000 pcs, Vincent van Gogh
- Iris -- 1000 pcs, Vincent van Gogh
- Iris in the Vase -- 1000 pcs, Vincent van Gogh
- Landscape with Cypress -- 2000 pcs, Vincent van Gogh
- Peach Trees in Bloom -- 1500 pcs, Vincent van Gogh
- Peach Trees in Bloom -- 1000 pcs, Vincent van Gogh
- Restaurant de la Sirene -- 2000 pcs, Vincent van Gogh
- Self-Portrait of Van Gogh -- 1000 pcs, Vincent van Gogh
- Souvenir de Mauve -- 1500 pcs, Vincent van Gogh
- Starry Night -- 1000 pcs, Vincent van Gogh
- Starry Night -- 1500 pcs, Vincent van Gogh
- Starry Starry Night over the Rhône -- 2000 pcs, Vincent van Gogh
- Sunflower Panel -- 1000 pcs, Vincent Van Gogh
- Sunflowers -- 1500 pcs, Vincent van Gogh
- Sunflowers -- 1000 pcs, Vincent van Gogh
- Thatched Cottages at Cordeville -- 1000 pcs, Vincent van Gogh
- Thatched Cottages at Cordeville -- 2000 pcs, Vincent van Gogh
- Van Gogh's Bedroom at Arles -- 1000 pcs, Vincent van Gogh
- Vase of Irises -- 1000 pcs, Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh was born in 1853, eldest son of a Calvinist preacher. His difficult, yet always devoted and vehement character, came very much to the fore in his first interests in life -- art dealer, teacher in the suburbs of London, evangelist lay preacher. Van Gogh started working at age 16 in The Hague, until the taking of some tenuous steps to follow his father into the clergy in 1877. He soon went into an impoverished mining district in Belgium for missionary work. It was around 1880 when his true pictorial vocation emerged, but his decision to throw himself into art invoked the wrath of his father, who cut off his financial support, and left him forever after in the care of his borther Théo. Around that time he admired the country scenes painted by Millet and investigated the perspective and resources of colour. His apprenticeship culminated in The Potato Eaters, a work dating from 1885 and displaying a markedly social nature. In Antwerp, he discovered Japanese engravings and the brilliant and intense palette of Rubens. In 1886, he moved to Paris where, through the interventions of Théo, he got to know the impressionists, with their paintings of great clarity and liberty in the portrayal of reality. He then came at last to the south of France, to Arles, where he thought to set up a circle of artists with help from Gauguin. Noteworthy of mention from these years are Van Gogh's Room in Arles and Starry Night. Nevertheless, his ever more frequent and violent epileptic attacks, exasperated by unmoderated work and poor nourishment, broke the artist's health and left him in need of long stays in sanatoria prior to going back up north, where he was able to resume, briefly, his creative output (with works like the unsettling Church of Auvers) until his suicide in 1890.
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