The Samuel Courtauld Trust, the Courtauld Gallery, London Gauguin, Still Life with Fan, 1888. Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, NY Paul Gauguin, in an 1889 self-portrait, insisted he ...

A lonely Van Gogh painted postman Joseph Roulin and his family in a creative frenzy. The portraits, on view at MFA Boston, ...

Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for many decades, has ...

A celebrated author and Nobel literature laureate with Syracuse University ties is dead at age 89. Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa died in Lima, Peru, on Sunday, while surrounded by his family, ...

How did Vincent van Gogh really die? We’ve all heard of the tortured artist who took his own life before he had a chance to ...

In art and life, Van Gogh “needed depth, something that spoke to his heart, that relieved his loneliness and reassured him he was still part of the human community ... his affection”—most notably Paul ...

In Still Life With Brioche, c ... To artists like Claude Monet and Paul Gauguin, all of it was also rich fodder for a new approach to painting, showcased in the play of light over a silver ...