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Vincent van Gogh died on 29 July 1890. Every jurisdiction that measures copyright from the author's death — seventy years in the European Union and the United Kingdom, fifty in much of the rest of the world — released his work long ago, and works published before 1929 are in the public domain in the United States as well. There is no country in which one of these paintings is still protected as a painting. This catalogue can state that flatly, which a catalogue of a subject rather than a person cannot.
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