Vincent van Gogh created some of the best loved
- & most expensive
- works of art ever made, from the early The Potato Eaters to his late masterpieces Sunflowers & The Starry Night. He had worked as an art dealer, a missionary & as a teacher in Engl&, & only in his late twenties did he begin a life that would be fundamental in shaping modern art. But when he died in Auvers-sur-Oise in 1890 at the age of thirty-seven he was largely unknown. Written with the cooperation of the Van Gogh Museum, Pulitzer-winning authors Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith recreate his extraordinary life, & the inside of his troubled mind, like never before
- & they put forward an explosive new theory challenging the widespread belief that Van Gogh took his own life. Drawing for the first time on all of his (and his family's) extensive letters, which offer exquisite glimpses into his thoughts & feelings, this is the definitive portrait of one of the world's cultural giants.