A café in the southern French town Arles, made to resemble a bistro painted by Vincent Van Gogh, has been closed for legal reasons since July 2023. Café Terrace at Night (1888) is one of the ...

At the toughest time of his life, the painter was supported by an unlikely soulmate, Joseph Roulin, a postman in Arles. It ...

In the late 1880s, Vincent van Gogh spent two years in southern France. Though the period was famously tumultuous for the ...

In a letter to Willemien, Van Gogh described how The Courtyard of the Hospital in Arles was packed with ... a nearby wall contains one half of a cafe scene painted in 1878 by Manet, of which ...

Morell had come to Arles to take photographs in the places Vincent van Gogh painted 130 years ago. But, even as he stood amid the painter’s beloved Provençal landscape, he seemed undaunted.

While painting Joseph Roulin and his wife and children, Vincent wrote in great excitement: “I’ve done the portraits of an entire family” ...

A rare figure of stability during Van Gogh's mentally turbulent two years in Arles, in the South of France, Roulin ensured that he received care in a psychiatric hospital, and visited him while he ...

Although Van Gogh often led a lonely life in Provence, he found a true friend in Joseph Roulin, a 47-year-old postal official at the railway station in Arles. Roulin proved loyal when times were ...