Posthumous fame of Vincent van Gogh of Vincent van Gogh's life in 1934 entitled "Lust for Life" that was largely based on the letters to Theo; this book and later the movie of the same name added to further the artist's fame. During his lifetime, Van Gogh contributed works of his own only on a few and minor occasions which mainly passed unnoted by critics and public. For example, in 1887, a display of Japanese woodcuts in the Restaurant "Au Tambourin", 62 Boulevard de Clichy, then run by Augustina Ségatori, for which Van Gogh probably interpreted three famous "ukiyo-e" prints by Keisai Eisen and Hiroshige. Towards
Portraits by Vincent van Gogh shown hanging to the left of the portrait of Paul-Eugène Milliet. Arranged this way, both portraits may have formed part of the "Décoration for the Yellow House". When Eugène Boch died in 1941, he bequeathed "The Poet" (that is Van Gogh's title for his portrait of Eugène Boch, which Boch received from Johanna van Gogh-Bonger as a present in July 1891) to the Louvre. "Portrait of the Artist's Mother" is a painting Vincent van Gogh made in 1888 of his mother, Anna Carbentus van Gogh, from a black-and-white photograph. In September 1888, Van Gogh, answering to a letter of his