Colourful Displays of Madness and Motives Behind the Masterpieces : Review

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Vincent: The Full Story Channel 4, 8.00pm (Sunday) The Private Life of a Masterpiece

BBC2, 8.20pm (Saturday) It hasn't puzzled the greatest scholars of the age, exactly, but the thing has been bugging me for years. Goff or Go, Guff or Gow, Gough or Goo? You'd think the Dutch would have settled the matter by now, yet people still go around giving the great Vincent van Gogh their own private monikers. That, it turns out, was why he decided on plain Vincent.

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Colourful Displays of Madness and Motives Behind the Masterpieces : Review

After doing an exquisite job on Paul Gauguin last year, Waldemar Januszczak - another name to tangle the tongue - at least settled one thing in the first of three films. It's ...

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