Van Gogh painted and drew numerous portraits throughout his career and was especially interested in them during his early years of painting. He obviously never lost his passion for portraits, in a letter written to his sister, Wilhelmina, on June 5, 1890, Van Gogh wrote, “What impassions me most – much, much more than all…
In June of 1889, while at the asylum in Saint-Remy, Van Gogh created a drawing with blue and black chalk, on bluish gray Ingres paper titled Mask of an Egyptian Mummy. Shortly before his death, in July of 1890, Van Gogh executed three more drawings of the same subject one with blue caulk and the…
On June 17, 1876, Van Gogh wrote to his brother, Theo, about his love for the church, “But the reason I would much sooner give for commending myself to you is my innate love of the church and everything to do with the church, which may lie dormant from time to time but always reawakens;…
