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Vincent van Gogh

Dutch painter (1853–1890)

9 dated entries naming Vincent van Gogh, drawn from 8 separate years between 1853 CE and 2016 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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19th century

  • 1853March 30 – Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (died 1890)source
  • 1888December 23 – During a bout of mental illness (and having quarreled with his friend Paul Gauguin), Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh infamously cuts off the lower part of his own left ear, taking it to a brothel, and is removed to the local hospital in Arles in the south of France.source
  • 1889June – Vincent van Gogh paints The Starry Night at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.source
  • 1890May 20 – Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh moves to Auvers-sur-Oise on the edge of Paris, in the care of Paul Gachet, where he will produce around seventy paintings in as many days.source
  • 1890July 29 – Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (born 1853)source

20th century

  • 1901March 17 – The first large-scale showing of Van Gogh's paintings takes place in Paris, as 71 are shown at the Bernheim-Jeune gallery, 11 years after his death.source
  • 1932April 19 – German art dealer Otto Wacker is sentenced to 19 months in prison for selling fraudulent paintings he attributed to Vincent van Gogh.source
  • 1990May 15 – Portrait of Dr. Gachet by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a record $82.5 million.source

21st century

  • 2016September 30 – Two paintings by Vincent van Gogh with a combined value of $100 million, Seascape at Scheveningen and Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen, are recovered after having been stolen on December 7, 2002, from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.source

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