Vincent Van Gogh’s painting Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear is frequently taken to be the pitiable proof of the artist’s hopeless derangement, another step along the road to his eventual suicide by ...

In a new series Waldemar Januszczak (pictured) sets out to uncover the secret meanings hidden in four famous paintings by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and Seurat. Everyone knows the pictures. They are ...

Van Gogh's Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear is one of his most famous works of art. However, hidden inside the painting is a startling secret, a steamy tale of geishas, brothels, bullfights, broken ...

Gauguin is one of the world's greatest and most popular artists, yet the full story of his life has remained shrouded in mystery. Now in Gauguin: The Full Story for BBC FOUR and BBC TWO, art writer ...

In a new series Waldemar Januszczak (pictured) sets out to uncover the secret meanings hidden in four famous paintings by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and Seurat. Everyone knows the pictures. They are ...

Episode two: Seurat. Hanging in the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Seurat’s Les Poseuses is a beautiful but puzzling picture. It shows three nudes in the artist’s studio, but also included in the ...