TOP 10 Van Gogh Paintings

Vincent Van Gogh is most famous for his intense self-portraits, having produced almost forty in ten years

Van Gogh's Fishing Boats On The Beach At Saintes Maries is one of a series of paintings the artist made in 1888 during an excursion to a small seaside village on the Mediterranean.

Using complementary colors, Vincent van Gogh created a unity between the figure and the background. He paints a light blue vase with green details and bright red poppy flowers in it. The red is complementary to the blue background, in which the artist gave depth by using black. He loosely and freely paints this still-life in a decorative way, using thick layers of paint, giving an idea to what direction he wanted to go with these paintings and rapidly being able to achieve his aesthetic goals, like in his later work Irises.

Painted a year after his Starry Night Over the Rhone, Van Gogh Starry Night (1889) is a reproduction - from memory - of the night view from his sanatorium window In Southern France.

Starry Night Over the Rhone, painted a year before Starry Night oil painting, is an experiential reproduction of a nighttime so paradoxically full of light.

Branches with Almond Blossom is a humble and gentle work, made as gifts for the newly born son of his beloved brother Theo

Atumn Landscape (1885) is a masterful reproduction of the tones and palettes of light shifting between the seasons.

The first painting of Van Gogh’s to feature his remarkable rendering of starry skies; Café Terrace on the Place du Forum (1888) was painted in Arles after a long summer working on his fraught reproductions of the sun-drenched fields of Southern France.

Van Gogh paints Vase With Twelve Sunflowers to hang in the guest room to welcome him and convince him to work together, and also painted Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers to pair with it.

Still Life with Irises (1890), one of the most famous paintings by Vincent Van Gogh