Ronald Pickvance
The basics
Quick facts
Gender:
Male
Birth:
15 August 1930
Death:
21 March 2017
The details
Biography
Introduction
Ronald Pickvance (15 August 1930 – 21 March 2017) was an English art historian and expert in the work of Vincent van Gogh. He was Richmond Professor of Fine Art at the University of Glasgow from 1977 to 1984. Pickvance wrote the forward to Van Gogh: The Lost Arles Sketchbook (edited by Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov) which contained reproductions of sketches said to be by the artist, but the authenticity of which has been disputed.
Selected publications
- The drawings of Gauguin. Paul Hamlyn, London, 1970. ISBN 0600025551
- Van Gogh in Arles. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1984.
- Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1994. ISBN 9780731029211
- Degas sculptor. Waanders, Zwolle, 1991.
- Paul Gauguin. Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, 1998.