Description
Considered a founding father of modern painting, Vincent van Gogh is also one of the most famed tragic figures in art history. This comprehensive introduction brings together a detailed account of the artist's life with a complete catalog of his 871 paintings.
Even as he was painting the canvases that would subsequently become these sell-out modern masterpieces, van Gogh was battling not only the disinterest of his contemporary audiences but also devastating bouts of mental illness. Episodes of depression and paralyzing anxiety would eventually claim his life in 1890, when he committed suicide shortly after his 37th birthday.
Part of the Bibliotheca Universalis series.
- Authors: Rainer Metzger and Ingo F. Walther
- Hardcover
- Publisher: Taschen, 2015
- 744 pages 7.5" x 5.5"
- ISBN: 9783836557153
