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Vincent van Gogh’s The Artist on the Road to Tarascon (August 1888)
Courtesy of the Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg (inventory GK 558, St 29)
A few weeks ago we told the story of the Van Gogh self-portrait that was hidden in a salt mine in central Germany to protect it from bombing raids during the Second World War. In 1945, the Magdeburg museum’s painting of
The Artist on the Road to Tarascon (1888)
is believed to have been destroyed by a fire nearly a kilometre underground although it is possible that it was looted and could still survive. Fortunately, it was one of the relatively few Van Gogh paintings that were photographed in colour before the war. ....

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