The Last Van Gogh

For those interested is some very-informative background information
concerning how and why, during the last seventy days of his life,
Vincent van Gogh was able to produce over seventy incredibly-beautiful
final masterpieces, the recent historical novel "The Last Van
Gogh" (Penguin) by the internationally acclaimed author Alyson Richman
provides some amazing insight. The author traveled to the French
village of Auvers-sur-Oise on a number of occasions and meticulously
researched the period during which Van Gogh lived there, even
interviewing a number of the village's elders, who knew his last muse,
Magaret Gachet, the daughter of the homeopathic doctor who was
treating Van Gogh at the time. It's truly an amazing novel,
beautifully written and highly recommended. It just came out in
paperback a few months ago. (It's available at Amazon.com and
Barnesandnoble.com.) For anybody who loves Van Gogh's works, this
book should prove unbelievably fascinating. [Incidentally, Ms.
Richman is also the author of the highly-reviewed novels "The Mask
Carver's Son" (Bloomsbury - 2000) and "Swedish Tango" (Simon &
Schuster - 2004).]

The exciting new information about Van Gogh that Ms. Richman
researched and incorporated into her fascinating new novel has already
generated considerable interest and enthusiasm in lectures and
discussion groups at fine art museums around the country, including
the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Dayton Museum of Fine Art and, over
the months ahead, at the Heckscher Museum of Art (in Huntington, New
York) and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Readers' Support Group - The Last Van Gogh