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Vincent Van Gogh (1853-90) was a Dutch post Impressionist painter. Van Gogh worked as an art dealer, a teacher in England and a missionary among coalminers before becoming an artist in about 1880. He had a limited training in The Hague and in Antwerp, where he studied the works of Rubens and Japanese prints and moved to Paris in 1886. In Paris Van Gogh adopted the style of Impressionism and Pointillism but it was in Arles in 1888 that Van Gogh painted his best known paintings including sunflowers, but only one work was sold in his lifetime. Van Gogh famously cut off part of his left ear and in 1889 went into a mental asylum at Saint-Rémy. ‘Wheatfield with Crows’ was painted shortly before his suicide.
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