Vincent van Gogh: 8 things you didn't know about the painter

Despite going unappreciated and for the most part completely unknown in his lifetime, the Dutch artist radically changed our artistic landscape and culture and is now considered one of the masters. Associated with the post-impressionist movement, Vincent van Gogh’s massive body of works (comprising over 2,000 canvases and drawings) also played a major role in fauvism and expressionism, some of the biggest events in modern art. Vogue Paris is looking back over the complex life of an undisputed genius.

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