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Vincent van Gogh
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  • What was it Van Gogh had touched?†   (source)
  • Max listened as his father rattled off the names from a slip of paper: Picasso, Matisse, and van Gogh came handily enough, but he paused when he came to the last.†   (source)
  • Ah, yes, the van Gogh.†   (source)
  • She was wearing a navy-blue reefer and a tam that was very nearly the same shade of red as the blanket on the bed in van Gogh's room at Aries.†   (source)
  • Crazily, I wished Van Gogh were there to see it.†   (source)
  • I walked her down the infinite boredom of Constitution Avenue and into the National Gallery and lectured her about Rembrandt and Van Gogh, of whom I knew almost nothing.†   (source)
  • Van Gogh's Starry Night wheeled across the brochure she'd been using as a bookmark.†   (source)
  • It seems her art collection included a lost painting by Vincent van Gogh.†   (source)
  • Tell me why you want my van Gogh, Monsieur Allon.†   (source)
  • It seems Hannah trusted only one person in the world to look after her van Gogh.†   (source)
  • And thus take possession of a van Gogh painting worth at least a hundred million dollars.†   (source)
  • She passed through the door of her childhood bedroom and groped in the darkness for the van Gogh.†   (source)
  • "I'm sorry to disappoint you," she had lied with admirable composure, "but I don't have a van Gogh.†   (source)
  • They fell into a comfortable silence, each staring at the van Gogh, like strangers in a gallery.†   (source)
  • "I'll let you know when I see the van Gogh."†   (source)
  • All morning, I'd been unable to care about anything else, not the van Gogh poster and not video games and not even my class schedule, which the Eagle had brought by that morning.†   (source)
  • Nice van Gogh, though, of a sea shore.†   (source)
  • "Van Gogh loved Hals too.†   (source)
  • But the palette was not all gray and ocher, for periodically Max traversed vast carpets of knee-high blue flowers that stretched across the landscape like a Van Gogh.†   (source)
  • Though everyone knows of Van Gogh and Rembrandt and Leonardo da Vinci, Ruth and I focused on twentieth-century American modern art, and many of the artists we met over the years created work that museums and other collectors later coveted.†   (source)
  • And hanging above the French provincial dresser, invisible in the darkness, was a painting by Vincent van Gogh.†   (source)
  • Inside the crate was payment in full for an unfinished job: Marguerite Gachet at Her Dressing Table, oil on canvas, by Vincent van Gogh.†   (source)
  • Otherwise, the room was as Gabriel remembered it: the same bed with a lace canopy, the same toys and stuffed animals, the same provincial dresser, above which hung the same painting, Marguerite Gachet at Her Dressing Table, oil on canvas, by Vincent van Gogh.†   (source)
  • AT TEN THE FOLLOWING MORNING, the Israel Museum announced it had acquired a previously unknown work by Vincent van Gogh—Marguerite Gachet at Her Dressing Table, oil on canvas, 104 by 60 centimeters—from the estate of Hannah Weinberg.†   (source)
  • As Hannah passed the picture, she trailed a forefinger over its surface, as she had touched the brushstrokes of the van Gogh.†   (source)
  • " "The team found no mention of a certain Israeli intelligence officer who once borrowed her van Gogh in order to find a terrorist.†   (source)
  • Isaac Weinberg had managed to conceal two things before the dreaded knock at the door: his only child, a young son named Marc, and the van Gogh.†   (source)
  • Henceforth, Gabriel Allon renounced any and all claim to the van Gogh; it was now the property of the Israel Museum.†   (source)
  • Gabriel had come to Paris because he needed a van Gogh as bait in order to insert an agent into the entourage of Zizi al-Bakari, and he had heard from an old friend in London, a wildly eccentric art dealer named Julian Isherwood, that Hannah Weinberg was in possession of one.†   (source)
  • He drank more of the blood-red Syrah and tried to compose the words he would use to tell Chiara that he was leaving for Paris because a woman she had never met had left him a van Gogh painting worth more than a hundred million dollars.†   (source)
  • The blood billowed above them, and I suddenely realized that I had known mad, sad, bad Vincent Van Gogh, and it was really too bad that he couldn't have painted this.†   (source)
  • There is a picture of Van Gogh's of a billiard-parlour at night.†   (source)
  • On my first afternoon I proudly hung a reproduction of Van Gogh's Sunflowers over the fire and set up a screen, painted by Roger Fry with a Provencal landscape, which I had bought inexpensively when the Omega workshops were sold up.†   (source)
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