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Vincent van Gogh: Self-Portrait

Vincent van Gogh: The Starry Night

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Vincent van Gogh: The Old Tower in the Fields

Vincent van Gogh: The Potato Eaters

Vincent van Gogh: Fishing in Spring, the Pont de Clichy (Asnières)

Vincent van Gogh: Self-Portrait

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Vincent van Gogh: The Bedroom

Vincent van Gogh: Portrait of Joseph Roulin

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Largely on the basis of the works of the last three years of his life, van Gogh is generally considered one of the greatest Dutch painters of all time. His work exerted a powerful influence on the development of much modern painting, in particular on the works of the Fauve painters, Chaim Soutine, and the German Expressionists. Yet of the more than 800 oil paintings and 700 drawings that constitute his life’s work, he sold only one in his lifetime. Always desperately poor, he was sustained by his faith in the urgency of what he had to communicate and by ...(100 of 2771 words)

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