Article: Portrait of Dr. Gachet.

The Story of a van Gogh Masterpiece: Modernism, Money, Politics, Collectors, Dealers, Taste, Greed, and Loss

Cynthia Saltzman

Viking, $25.95, 406 pp.

Known to many simply as "Vincent" (as he signed his letters and paintings), van Gogh is perhaps the most famous artist in the world. He is revered as a painter, his life and tragic death have been the subject of a best-selling biography and a popular movie, and his mysterious psychiatric disorder (probably epilepsy exacerbated by poor diet and absinthe) has inspired reams of posthumous diagnosis. The popular reading of Vincent van Gogh, the poor, mad genius who cut off his ear, was already gaining ...

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