Vincent van Gogh: A Life in Pictures

Art as life: Vincent van Gogh's life story, told through his greatest works.

"How could a man who loved flowers and light so much and depicted them so well have managed to be so unhappy?" So asked Claude Monet when reflecting on the contrast between the brilliance and positivity of Van Gogh's art and the tragedy of his short life.

Vincent van Gogh: A Life in Pictures sets out to answer that question, but not in the traditional way of recounting his biography and dropping in some paintings as ...