This is a definitive biography based on new materials by the bestselling prize-winning authors of Pollock". 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 England & 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 exclusive 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. Drawing on all of his (and his familys) extensive letters which offer exquisitely-written glimpses into his thoughts & feelings this is the definitive portrait of one of the worlds cultural giants."