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Van Gogh’s ‘Postman’, and the very chair seen in the painting, go on show in a revelatory Amsterdam exhibition

The artist once wrote to his brother of his subject's “blue uniform with gold trimmings, a big, bearded face”

Martin Bailey
3 October 2025
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Van Gogh’s Postman Joseph Roulin (July-August 1888) (detail)

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston