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"This work is published to coincide with an exhibition in the USA of a group of Van Gogh's paintings from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The collection is based on works acquired directly from the artist by his brother. Among the treasures reproduced here are ""Potato Eaters"", ""The Bedroom"" ""Self Portrait as an Artist"", Wheatfield with Crows"", and ""Harvest"". Richard Kendall's essay addresses Van Gogh's major themes and the different phases of his career. John Leighton contributes a history of the Van Gogh Museum and a biography of the artist."

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The brilliant colours, explosive brushwork and emotional intensity of Van Gogh's paintings make them some of the best-known and most popular images in art. Yet during his short and troubled lifetime, Van Gogh's genius was little understood and never fully appreciated. This book presents 70 paintings from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the largest single assemblage of the artist's work. All periods of his intensely productive career are represented: his earliest Dutch paintings; his responses to Impressionism in 1886; the images he painted while in hospitals in Arles and Saint-Remy; and his last, feverishly creative works on Auvers-sur-Oise. Many of his greatest and most iconic paintings, such as The Potato Eaters, The Bedroom, Self-Portrait as an Artist, The Harvest and Wheatfield with Crows are reproduced, along with lesser-known canvases. Accompanying these is an exploration of the major themes and the different phases of Van Gogh's career, a history of the Van Gogh Museum and a short biography of the artist. (Kirkus UK)

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