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‘Van Gogh’ by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith

A richer, detailed portrait of van Gogh

By Roberta Silman

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  October 17, 2011

Now, at last, with “Van Gogh: The Life’’ by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, we have what could very well be the definitive life of the great artist, comparable to Hilary Spurling’s work on Matisse or John Richardson’s on Picasso. In it we get a much fuller view of Van Gogh, owing to the decade Naifeh and White Smith spent on research to create this scholarly and spell-binding work.

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