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A Van Gogh biography exhaustive enough to recalibrate everything ever written by or about him.

The portrait that emerges from Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith's energetic, hulking and negatively skewed “Van Gogh: The Life.”.

Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith provide a guided tour through the personal world and the work of that Dutch painter.

In dazzling detail, they tell the familiar story of Van Gogh's convulsive life: the early years in Holland where his wayward temperament.

British painter and writer Julian Bell answers that question forcefully in the subtitle of “Van Gogh: A Power Seething,” an impressively concise.

Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith provide a guided tour through the personal world and the work of that Dutch painter....

Van Gogh: The Life

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith galvanized readers with their astonishing Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography, a book acclaimed for its miraculous research and overwhelming narrative power.

Now Naifeh and Smith have written another tour de force&#x;an exquisitely detailed, compellingly readable, and ultimately heartbreaking portrait of creative genius Vincent van Gogh.

Working with the full cooperation of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Naifeh and Smith have accessed a wealth of previously untapped materials.

While drawing liberally from the artist&#x;s famously eloquent letters, they have also delved into hundreds of unpublished family correspondences, illuminating with poignancy the wanderings of Van Gogh&#x;s troubled, restless soul.

Naifeh and Smith bring a crucial understanding to the larger-than-life mythology of this great artist&#x;his early struggles to fin