--- product_id: 6357435 title: "Van Gogh: The Life" price: "₱3526" currency: PHP in_stock: true reviews_count: 11 url: https://www.desertcart.ph/products/6357435-van-gogh-the-life store_origin: PH region: Philippines --- # Van Gogh: The Life **Price:** ₱3526 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Van Gogh: The Life - **How much does it cost?** ₱3526 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ph](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/6357435-van-gogh-the-life) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Van Gogh: The Life [Naifeh, Steven, Smith, Gregory White] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Van Gogh: The Life Review: Extraordinarily well written and researched - This exceptionally well researched and written biography is an incredible read. I’ve been an admirer of Van Gogh’s work my entire life. Now I understand the man more completely. This amazing read goes into great depth behind Van Gogh’s life, struggles, and work. Just an amazing book to know Van Gogh more completely. Review: Now I Think I Know What He Tried to Say to Me... - This is a phenomenal biography of Vincent Van Gogh. I knew very little about him before reading it--now I feel like I know a lot. What a sad life he led, rebelling against his family's values, draining his brother's finances dry and then demanding more, attacked by bouts of severe mental illness. I came to really care about him as a person and wished his life could have been happier. We learn so much about him, and the book is very readable, well-paced, fascinating. Did he cut off his ear to impress a woman? Did he commit suicide? Hm. Better read the book to find out! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #82,260 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #8 in Biographies of Artists, Architects & Photographers (Books) #27 in Individual Artists (Books) #33 in Painting (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (1,778) | | Dimensions | 6.2 x 1.6 x 9.1 inches | | Edition | Reprint | | ISBN-10 | 0375758976 | | ISBN-13 | 978-0375758973 | | Item Weight | 2.9 pounds | | Language | English | | Print length | 976 pages | | Publication date | December 4, 2012 | | Publisher | Random House Trade Paperbacks | ## Images ![Van Gogh: The Life - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91xQOeC8TBL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Extraordinarily well written and researched *by T***G on December 24, 2025* This exceptionally well researched and written biography is an incredible read. I’ve been an admirer of Van Gogh’s work my entire life. Now I understand the man more completely. This amazing read goes into great depth behind Van Gogh’s life, struggles, and work. Just an amazing book to know Van Gogh more completely. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Now I Think I Know What He Tried to Say to Me... *by H***N on March 6, 2026* This is a phenomenal biography of Vincent Van Gogh. I knew very little about him before reading it--now I feel like I know a lot. What a sad life he led, rebelling against his family's values, draining his brother's finances dry and then demanding more, attacked by bouts of severe mental illness. I came to really care about him as a person and wished his life could have been happier. We learn so much about him, and the book is very readable, well-paced, fascinating. Did he cut off his ear to impress a woman? Did he commit suicide? Hm. Better read the book to find out! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Another Author's Perspective *by W***D on October 26, 2011* As an art history professor and author of a book on Van Gogh, I have spent many years researching the life, motives and actions of Vincent Van Gogh. I am convinced that he was a heroic man. He was a consistent champion of the underdog, and on numerous occasions took blame for the misdeeds of others. The idea that Vincent wanted to protect the boys who accidentally shot him is consistent with his personality. Emotionally and intuitively, Vincent's accidental shooting and his protection of the young boys makes perfect sense, and offers a far more reasonable conclusion to an extraordinary life--one that was from beginning to end selflessly devoted to the Gospel theme of loving another in place of oneself. To Vincent Van Gogh, it was about cherishing daily life in pursuit of eternal salvation, though his path to redemption was uneven and even at times tortured. And perhaps--as Naifeh and Smith have suggested in their book--this act of compassion in shielding those young boys from blame, and in preventing his brother Theo from further undue stress, may well have been a coup de grâce...a final effort to propel himself into the eternal life to which he had long aspired. In my view, Van Gogh: The Life is a book any serious Van Gogh fan should own for the impressive amount of information that Naifeh and Smith present. For instance, the authors offer the reader a portrait of conventional Dutch social life in the nineteenth century and the complex and conflicted role Vincent played within that era. Other notable features of the book include an astute discussion of the importance of music in Van Gogh's aesthetic formation. Passages of the book are simply beautiful and noteworthy. A systematic framework for more study of his fascinating life has been provided by the almost interrogatory nature of this compilation--not surprising given the background of the authors. Nonetheless, I recall an admonition that Van Gogh made about information gathering and the artist. Vincent said that it was the task of the artist to emphasize the obvious and eliminate the extraneous. Van Gogh: The Life underplays what is in my estimation crucial in grasping Van Gogh, namely his sacred view of life. This universal view shaped his thought process and as an artist guided his choices of subject matter. Van Gogh loved the uplifting message of forgiveness embodied in the Gospel message of Christ. This appears poignantly in his many overtly religious works which Van Gogh painted in the last months of his life such as: "The Good Samaritan", "The Raising of Lazarus", "The Pieta" and "The Starry Night" of 1889. This was a time in which Vincent said he had a "terrible need for religion." According to Naifeh and Smith, the light of his faith had been extinguished at the time of this father's death in 1885; Van Gogh's quest for the sacred had effectively ceased. Yet the evidence of Van Gogh's own letters in the ensuing years cannot be dismissed. Treating the sacred dimension of Van Gogh as fundamentally pathological rather than as a universalizing world view strips his art and life of its transcendent meaning and message. My conviction about the role of the sacred in fully understanding Van Gogh is widely shared by other 21st century Van Gogh scholars who are part of a reappraisal of religious themes in art. Notable museum exhibitions have also stressed this concept by displaying the overtly religious works of Van Gogh, Gauguin, Delacroix and many other renowned figures in the canon of a Western art. The sacred embrace that emerges from Van Gogh's art, letters and life outshines his illness, and provides all humanity with eternal hope. ## Frequently Bought Together - Van Gogh: The Life - Vincent Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.ph/products/6357435-van-gogh-the-life](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/6357435-van-gogh-the-life) --- *Product available on Desertcart Philippines* *Store origin: PH* *Last updated: 2026-04-27*