We know that Van Gogh was forced to paint himself for lack of models: all the self-portraits in his museum in Amsterdam may not show us the faces he most wanted to paint. Unger speculates that Père ...

Miles Unger follows Vincent van Gogh’s time living in the bohemian Montmartre district, and its explosive effect on the painter’s work.

The works are now the subject of a first-of-its-kind exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of Joseph Roulin (1889), detail. Collection of the Museum of Modern ...