Badly Drawn Biographies

Lives shaped by work, failure, luck, and legacy—without smoothing away uncertainty or forcing them into tidy lessons.

These are not motivational posters with dates attached. Each life is treated as a sequence of circumstances and decisions, including the parts that do not fit the tidy version people remember.

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Badly Drawn Biographies

Why Vincent van Gogh Sold Almost Nothing

Why Van Gogh's short, difficult career found few buyers—and how Theo and Jo van Gogh-Bonger helped his work reach the audience that arrived later.

Vincent van Gogh
Art history
Biography