Vincent.(Vincent van Gogh, National Gallery of Art, Washington)(Brief Article)

From: Insight on the News | Date: October 26, 1998| Author: Goode, Stephen | Copyright information

Vincent van Gogh sold but one painting in his lifetime; today, his work commands prices as high as $80 million. Now Americans can see 72 of the Dutch master's oils in a priceless exhibit.

In the mid-1870s, an intense, difficult and noticeably neurotic young man began work as an evangelist among the coal miners in the south of Belgium. The job didn't last long. His minister's appointment was not renewed, and the 26-year-old Dutchman, who had shown some talent for art, turn...

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