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Article: Portrait of Dr. Gachet.
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- August 14, 1998
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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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Article: Van Gogh, Coloring Our World; Unsung in His Day, ...
The Washington Post;
December 27, 1998 ;
700+ words
... ... celebrity! Huge amounts of money! No wonder "Van Gogh's Van Goghs: Masterpieces From the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam" is the exhibition of ... have made the show a hit, for compared with van Gogh's best works, many of those on view at ...
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