Vincent van Gogh was a post-impressionist painter known for his iconic works like Starry Night and Sunflowers. Some of his most famous pieces include The Potato Eaters, his first masterpiece, Café Terrace at Night featuring his signature starry sky, and Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, painted after he cut off his own ear. While he only sold one painting in his lifetime, van Gogh is now considered one of the greatest painters of the modern era.

1. VINCENT
VAN
GOGH
Self-Portrait with grey hat
(V. van Gogh) 1887

2. Van Gogh’s masterpieces
“I put my heart and my soul into my
work, and have lost my mind in the
process.”
Vincent
van Gogh
The Courtyard
of the Hospital
at Arles. 1889

3. The Red Vineyard at Arles, (1880)
is the only work van Gogh sold during his lifetime.

4. Van Gogh's art helped him stay emotionally balanced.
In 1885, he began work on what is considered to be
his first masterpiece, “The Potato Eaters"

5. Van Gogh's iconic
Post-Impressionistic
star-filled sky
appears for the first
time in his
"Café Terrace
at Night.”
(1888)

6. “Starry Night over the Rhone” 1888 (V. van Gogh)

7. “Sunflowers”
Vincent van Gogh
Some of Van Gogh's
most famous works are
his Sunflower series.
The oil paintings on
canvas, which depict
yellow sunflowers
in a vase, are now
displayed at museums
in London, Amsterdam,
Tokyo, Munich and
Philadelphia.

8. Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear 1889 (Courtauld Galleries, London)

9. Irises 1889 (Vincent van Gogh)
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

10. “Starry Night” 1889 (Vincent van Gogh)
Museum of Modern Art, New York

11. Starry Night is one of the most famous
pieces of art in the world.
It is an icon of modern art.
A combination of imagination, memory,
emotion and observation,
this oil painting on canvas depicts
a night sky and a village,
with a large flame-like cypress, thought to
represent the bridge between life and death.
Today, Vincent van Gogh is considered one
of the greatest painters of modern era.