Vincent van Gogh's “Irises” (1889) was painted during his stay in a psychiatric clinic after he suffered a mental breakdown. (all images courtesy Getty, unless otherwise noted) A painting conservator ...

On May 8, 1889, painter Vincent van Gogh checked himself into a psychiatric hospital near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, during a major mental health crisis. The hospital director, Théophile Peyron, ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition Van Gogh: Irises and Roses is on display though August 16. Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) brought his work in Provence to a close with exuberant bouquets of ...

A fragment of pine pollen found within Van Gogh’s Irises has helped locate the place where the flowers flourished, at the back of the walled garden in the asylum where the artist stayed for a year.

Vincent Van Gogh was obsessed with the pigments in his paints, and he knew as much or more about their composition and vulnerability as many of his contemporaries. So it is a tragic irony that many of ...