is part of a series of portraits Van Gogh painted of farmers in 1884 and 1885, when he was staying at his parents’ house in Nuenen. They would later figure in the Potato Eaters (1885). The woman, ...

Van Gogh wasn’t searching for a single utopia but was trying in many different settings to find or create harmony: in his liaison with his model-lover Sien Hoornik, his portrayals of the weavers ...

Perhaps Van Gogh’s most famous lover was Clasina Maria Hoornik, better known as Sien. One of the sex workers that the artist often hired as models for his work, Sien was a single mother when ...

Vincent Van ... Van Gogh wrote to his sister Willemien asking for news of the de Groots. “How did that business turn out?” he asked, referring to Gordina’s pregnancy. “Did Sien [Gordina ...