The Last Van Gogh
- ISBN-10
- 042521267X
- ISBN-13
- 9780425212677
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 308
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Alyson Richman
Description
In 1890, Van Gogh arrives at Auvers-sur-Oise, a peaceful French village, to spend the summer under the care of Doctor Gachet, a homeopathic doctor and art collector, where the painter will spend the final days of his life creating more than seventy paintings, including two portraits of young Marguerite Gachet, who finds herself drawn to the troubled artist. Original. 40,000 first printing.
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