When Vincent van Gogh died in the summer of 1890, he had sold almost nothing. Today his name sits beside the handful of painters everyone can name from memory. The strange part of that story is that the person who made it happen never picked up a brush. Her name was Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, and for a long time art history barely mentioned her. This is the story of how a young widow turned a room full of unsold canvases into one of the most beloved names in painting. A Painter

There is not one Sunflowers painting. There are seven, painted in two intense bursts over fourteen months in Arles. They were a decoration for a house that was supposed to hold a school of painters and never did.

Once Impressionism had taught everyone to see colour as light, the next generation asked what painting could do that photography could not. A reader's guide to Post-Impressionism — Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat.