Van Gogh Museum Holds World’s Prime Collection of His Art

February 9, 2009

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, hold the world’s largest collection of art work by artist Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890). Prolific Painter Even though Van Gogh was only active as a painter for a decade, today he is one of the most famous artists. In that decade that Van Gogh was a painter, i.e. 1880-1890, he was an extra-ordinarily prolific artist. As well, he rapidly developed from novice to master artist. Of the works Van Gogh created, 860 paintings, almost 1200 works on paper have been preserved. The vast majority, i.e. 201 paintings and 437 drawings, sketches and... Read more »

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