Best Selling Books by Van Gogh Museum

"Hugely prolific, Vincent Van Gogh produced over 2000 works (nearly 900 paintings and more than 1,100 drawings and sketches) in a ten-year period. His story and (largely) self-taught skills are an inspiration to budding artists everywhere. Fantastic Forgeries is a simple course in the artist''s legendary skills, so readers can learn his innovative techniques and then adapt and apply those techniques to their own renditions and drawings. You''ll begin just as Van Gogh did, first mastering black and white drawings, including figures and landscapes Then move on to color works, including watercolor, and then finally move on to oil painting. Within each chapter, the reader will come across a specific technique employed by Van Gogh in an artwork or artworks, and then--accompanied by step-by-step lessons--he or she can learn how to use that technique in their own drawings or paintings. Featuring a dazzling collection of Van Gogh''s works, step-by-step lessons for learning his techniques in 10 key pieces, as well as fascinating sidebars about Van Gogh''s life, critical reception to his work, and his own thoughts about his art, this is an ideal course for any artist looking to be inspired by one of the great masters"--

Take a search and find journey through the colourful life of Vincent van Gogh. Each page will guide you through the artist''s life, from his younger years in the Netherlands to his travels across Europe to his life as an artist. With fact spreads full of information about Vincent''s colourful and varied life, and interactive search and find spreads full of plenty of things to spot, this is the perfect interactive introduction to the life of Vincent van Gogh.

"For the great doesn''t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together." - Vincent van Gogh, The Hague, Sunday, October 22, 1882, to Theo van Gogh Artistic inspiration abounds in the Van Gogh Museum Sketchbook featuring spot art by one of the world''s great artists, Vincent Van Gogh. Place your own drawings and art alongside the sketches of one of the most innovative and famous artists of all time. Enjoy an introduction by the one of the curators at the Van Gogh Museum. Throughout the pages, learn about Van Gogh and see his rarely published sketches. Follow Van Gogh''s own themes, cities, countryside, and people with meaningful quotes from his letters. "Ideas for work are coming to me in abundanceâ?¬¿I''m going like a painting-locomotive." - Vincent van Gogh, Arles, on or about September 11, 1888, to Theo van Gogh - 144 pages - Sketches from Van Gogh''s Sketchbooks from The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam - Inspirational quotes will keep the art flowing - Sturdy hardcover keeps your art safe - Journal: 8.75 x 11.25 in. gives you ample room to sketch

The subject of this volume are the 44 paintings held by the Van Gogh Museum. Over 200 Van Gogh paintings from this time period survive.

Paul-Ferdinand Gachet (1828-1909) was among the first to appreciate the work of Van Gogh, Cezanne, Pissarro, and other Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists. A physician and amateur painter, Gachet befriended many artists and bought and received as gifts a large number of artworks, including such masterpieces as Van Gogh''s Church at Auvers and Cezanne''s A Modern Olympia. Beginning in 1949, Gachet''s children made a series of major donations to the French state from their father''s extraordinary collection. This book, like the exhibition it accompanies, presents the entire Gachet donation of paintings, drawings, prints, and even memorabilia, offering fresh information on the works and the intriguing copies of them. An essay describes the eventful life of the Gachets and their close relationships with such artists as Cezanne and Van Gogh. Newly assembled documentation gives the first comprehensive overview of the original collection as well as previously unpublished information about major works never before known to have been owned by the Gachets.