Exactly 170 years ago today Vincent van Gogh was born.
But he didn't just paint sunflowers and starry skies. Van Gogh made over 2,000 works of art in less than ten years - one every 36 hours.
So here are some of his less famous masterpieces:
Exactly 170 years ago today Vincent van Gogh was born.
But he didn't just paint sunflowers and starry skies. Van Gogh made over 2,000 works of art in less than ten years - one every 36 hours.
So here are some of his less famous masterpieces:
These are from his first years as an artist in the early 1880s, when he focussed on working people & peasants:
And his early landscapes, so much less vibrant and far darker than the van Gogh we're used to seeing:
Some of his lesser known late landscapes, bursting with that famous colour and expressive style:
Van Gogh made over twenty paintings based on the works of Jean-François Millet, including The Siesta, in 1890.
And he also made his own versions of prints by the great Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hiroshige:
Here's a review of van Gogh's work written just a few months before his death in 1890 by the French critic and poet Gabriel-Albert Aurier.
It's a beautiful evocation of what has made van Gogh such an enduringly popular artist.
And, to end, here's a self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh with his beloved pipe from September 1886: