Best Selling Books by Van Gogh Museum

This colouring book for adults will let you discover and experience the magic of Vincent Van Gogh’s art, his sense of colour, and his creativity. Colour Your Own Van Gogh presents you with 30 of the most captivating Van Gogh paintings from the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Thumbnails of the original paintings feature in the book allowing you to colour true to life.

Immerse yourself in the magic of world-renowned painter Vincent van Gogh’s art—experience the great master’s sense of color and creativity and unleash the artist inside you with this enchanting coloring book for adults. A major Post-Impressionist painter, known for his rich use of bright colors and distinctive and recognizable style, Vincent Van Gogh has continued to inspire artists and art-lovers for more than a century. Since his death in 1890, his vivid paintings—including The Irises, The Bedroom, and Sunflowers, as well as his pensive self-portraits—have been the source of countless studies among art critics and students, and have inspired artists and art-lovers around the globe. Now, Color Your Own Van Gogh lets you experience the artist as never before. Printed on a heavy paper stock suitable for display, this one-of-a-kind coloring book allows you to “paint” thirty of the artist’s most captivating works from the exclusive collection at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, using paints, pencils, or even crayons. The book employs a unique drop binding that allows the front cover to “drop away” from the binding, allowing for a completely flat surface to color, and ease of removing images from the book. In addition to the black-and-white line illustrations, Color Your Own Van Gogh includes full-color reproductions of the artist’s original paintings to help you color true to life, or stimulate your own imaginative palates and color design. Relax, create, and enjoy some of the most beautiful art the world has ever known with this inspiring and unique Van Gogh collection.

Het Van Gogh Museum beheert de grootste collectie werken van Vincent van Gogh ter wereld. Dit prachtige boek toont een selectie van meer dan 100 meesterwerken uit de museumcollectie. Beroemde schilderijen als ''De aardappeleters'', ''Het Gele Huis'', ''De slaapkamer'' en ''Zonnebloemen'' ontbreken uiteraard niet. De heldere begeleidende teksten beschrijven het verhaal achter de schilderijen. De werken worden aangevuld met topstukken van vrienden, tijdgenoten en latere kunstenaars die hun inspiratie vonden in Van Gogh''s werk, zoals Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, Camille Pissarro en Edvard Munch.

De keuze van Vincent, de catalogus van de gelijknamige tentoonstelling die in de eerste helft van 2003 doorging in het Van Gogh Museum, schetst aan de hand van 200 werken een beeld van Van Goghs voorkeuren op het gebied van de beeldende kunst.

Chronologisch overzicht van de potlood-, pen- en krijttekeningen die Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) maakte in Nederland en Frankrijk.