Two years later, just months before his death by suicide, the tormented artist sent a letter to the French art critic Albert Aurier in which he wrote: “In my case the emotions that take hold of ...

The first of these was the French Symbolist writer Albert Aurier’s 1890 article which praised Van Gogh’s work but called him: “An inspired enemy of all bourgeois sobriety and scruple, a kind of ...

It was in the home of the descendants of Albert Aurier, the avant-garde critic who had been the only person to publish a detailed article on Van Gogh during the artist’s lifetime. Vincent van ...

The gushing letter he wrote to the critic, Albert Aurier, was purchased by the Van Gogh Museum last month with the help of the Hong Kong tycoon and collector Cheung Chung-kiu. Aurier praised Van ...