Van Gogh: The Life
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Van Gogh: The Life
| Author | Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith |
|---|---|
| Published | 2011 |
| Pages | 953 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | The Pulitzer-winning biographers of Jackson Pollock spent a decade on Vincent van Gogh, working from a database of the family’s letters, and produced a nearly thousand-page life that treats him as a difficult, relentless man who came to painting late after failing as an art dealer, a teacher and a preacher. It ends with the authors’ argument that the fatal gunshot was most likely not self-inflicted. |
Where I heard about it
- @mastersinvest — on his “2025 Reading … so far” list, August 2025, in bold (his mark for “very good”) — one of the artistic-life outliers, with the Caro and Henri entries, on a list otherwise made of company histories. The full 46-title list is on 2025 Reading So Far… (tweet).
Connections
- 2025 Reading So Far… (tweet) — the list this came from.
What links here
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