The authors also shed new light on many unexplored aspects of Van Gogh’s inner world: his erratic and tumultuous romantic life his bouts of depression and mental illness and the cloudy circumstances surrounding his death at the age of thirty-seven. Working with the full cooperation of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Naifeh and Smith have accessed a wealth of previously untapped materials to bring a crucial understanding to the larger-than-life mythology of this great artist: his early struggles to find his place in the world his intense relationship with his brother Theo and his move to Provence, where he painted some of the best-loved works in Western art. Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, who galvanized readers with their Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Jackson Pollock, have written another tour de force-an exquisitely detailed, compellingly readable portrait of Vincent van Gogh.
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