He was a Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and self-portraits, and are characterized by bold colors and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. Not commercially successful, he struggled with severe depression and poverty. He had entered asylums and eventually resorted to suicide by shooting his head with a gun on July 1890. During his life, out of the 2100 artworks he had made, he could only sell one.His work had a powerful influence on the development of modern painting, and he is considered the greatest
