When Vincent Van Gogh shot himself in 1890, at the age of thirty – seven, he ended one of the shortest, most dramatic and brilliant careers of modern art. In the span of less than ten years he cretade an unforgettable record, in countless paintings, of the ineer drama of his life and of a passionate, uncompromising search for beauty. His work did much to revolutionize the art of our century, enriching it with a new emotionalism and expressive power.