O n May 9, 1889, the day after Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh moved into a psychiatric hospital, he began a painting of some flowers in the institution’s garden. The resulting Irises is now owned ...

On May 8, 1889, painter Vincent van Gogh checked himself into a psychiatric ... the artist wrote that he had begun painting the “violet irises” that grow on the parklike hospital grounds.

Van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr Gachet (June 1890), which is among his greatest paintings, finally seems to have been tracked down.

A postcard has helped to find the probable spot where Vincent van Gogh painted what may have been his final masterpiece, art experts say. The likely location for Tree Roots was found by Wouter van ...