Biographic: Van Gogh - S Collins

Many people know that Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) was a 19th-century Dutch artist a leading light of the Post-Impressionist movement who painted 'Sunflowers' and cut off his own ear. What perhaps they don't know is that he sold in his lifetime only one of the 2 100 artworks he painted; that in 1998 his work 'Self- Portrait Without Beard' sold for $71.5 million; that he wrote over 800 letters; and that he sent that famous ear wrapped in brown paper to a brothel. Biographic: Van Gogh presents an instant impression of his life and work with an array of irresistible facts and figures converted into infographics to reveal the artist behind the pictures.