Van Gogh face to face
Subtitle: the portraits
By: contributing authors, Roland Dorn ... [et al.].
Contributors: Dorn, Roland.; Detroit Institute of Arts.; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.; Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890 -- Exhibitions; Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890 -- Influence -- Exhibitions; Portrait painting, Dutch -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: "Published to accompany a major touring exhibition, this book brings together for the first time the great portraits from all periods of the painter's life. The story begins with the relatively unknown body of vivid, carefully executed drawings of orphans and paupers produced in The Hague when he was a young man. It continues with van Gogh's time in Paris, where the influence of Impressionism, Japanese art, and contemporaries like Gauguin and Bernard led him to produce some of his most famous images.".

"Each work is reproduced and set in context by leading scholars. Individually, their essays focus on particular groups of work, shedding new light on van Gogh's aims and methods. Collectively, they establish the centrality of portraiture to his oeuvre."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Detroit Institute of Arts, March 12-June 4, 2000, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, July 2-September 24, 2000, Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 22, 2000-January 14, 2001"--T.p. verso.