A technical analysis of the 1888 Paul Gauguin painting, The Little Cat, reveals hidden details, including a dead beetle.

A new analysis of the artist's "The Little Cat" has uncovered a wealth of new information about the strange artwork—including ...

Getty Museum On May 9, 1889, the day after Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh moved into a psychiatric hospital, he began a painting of some flowers in the institution’s garden. The resulting Irises ...

A new exhibition chronicles how a paintings conservator and chemist solved a color mystery in one of the painter’s most beloved works. Vincent van Gogh's “Irises” (1889) was painted during ...

When Vincent van Gogh painted his glorious sunflowers in Arles, every single one of them was for Paul Gauguin, whom he’d ...

From sunflowers to starry nights, Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh is one of the most celebrated names in Western art history. In his lifetime he's thought to have painted 2,100 ...

In 1888, Vincent was living in a yellow house in Arles ... his place in the history of art. That brings with it a sense of frustration. Van Gogh wanted a life of literature and poetry, of ...

Down the road, a field of heavy-headed sunflowers dazzled yellow under a blue sky ... that any serious artist who so much as nods at Van Gogh is flirting dangerously with kitsch.