Includes bibliographical references (p. 46) and index.

Sale of the century -- A country childhood -- A future artist? -- Leaving home -- Love in London -- Trouble at work -- Searching for a role -- Vincent the preacher -- An artist is born -- Vincent and Theo -- The student artist -- Unlucky in love -- A death in the family -- Living with Theo -- Vincent heads south -- The ear incident -- In the asylum -- Was Vincent insane? -- A tragic death -- The end for Theo -- Fame at last.

Introduces the life of Vincent van Gogh, a Dutch artist whose paintings had become the most famous and valuable on Earth by the end of the twentieth century.