Van Gogh: The Full Palette

From: The Washington Post | Date: October 2, 1998| Author: Hank Burchard | Copyright information

VINCENT van Gogh streaked like a comet across the world of art, and the fire and glory of his passage still lights our way. Despite all the legends that have grown up around his brief and bedeviled career, the story of his life and work is a simple one. It tells itself in the six dozen paintings on view at the National Gallery of Art.

The van Gogh show is the toughest ticket in town because he is one of the most honest and approachable great artists of all time. To be in the p...

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