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public-domain paintings: 500
printed products: 1,000
reference articles: 12
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Why this exists

Van Gogh is the most reproduced painter in the world and most of those reproductions are bad: oversaturated, cropped to fit a phone case, printed on cloth thin enough to read a hand through, and sold with a vague story about the artist that has nothing to do with the object in front of you.

GoghMall is a small attempt at the other thing. A hundred works, printed on ten formats, with the museum that holds the original named on the page and ten reference articles behind it. We do not pretend a tote bag is an artwork, and we do not sell a thousand skus of things nobody can explain.

The source files

Every work here is in the public domain: Vincent van Gogh died on 29 July 1890, and the copyright term has expired everywhere that matters. Images come from museum open-access programmes and public-domain archives. Where a museum asserts rights over its own photography we either license it or use a different source — we do not scrape and hope.

Printing

Canvas and poster prints are pigment ink on cotton and 250 gsm paper. Apparel is printed direct-to-garment on 400 gsm fleece or 180 gsm cotton jersey; totes and cushions are heat-cured pigment on heavy cotton canvas; mugs are sublimated; diamond painting kits are poured resin drills on a pre-printed adhesive canvas. Everything is made to order in the United States and the EU and checked before it ships.

What we are not

We are not a gallery, not an editions publisher, and not a financial adviser. Nothing here appreciates. If you want an original Van Gogh, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Musée d'Orsay are the places to look; what we sell is a well-printed copy of a great picture, on something you will actually use.

The admin side

The shop runs on Cloudflare Pages, Workers, D1, R2 and KV, with an admin area for users, products, orders, articles and payment channels. Price, stock and visibility are stored as overrides in KV so they go live without a rebuild; copy changes wait for the next deploy. Payment channels — Stripe, Creem, Paddle and a crypto processor — can each be switched on or off, and the storefront only offers what is enabled.

One hundred works, not a stock library

We would rather carry a hundred paintings with full records than ten thousand with a filename. Every work here has a title, a French and Chinese title, a year, a period, a holding museum and a source file we can name.

Reproduction is a claim, and we label it

A printed hoodie is not a painting. Nothing here is signed, numbered, limited or an investment. Saying so plainly — on the product page and in the schema markup — is the only way the rest of the catalogue stays credible.

Colour managed, not auto-corrected

Cheap reproductions get pushed toward neutral white and high saturation. Van Gogh is exactly the wrong painter for that: his yellows are unstable, his blues are heavy, and the surface is thick. We print from museum files and accept that some of them look quieter than a phone screen.

Ten articles behind every image

A picture without context is decoration. Each work carries ten reference articles: the story, the brushwork, the letters, the museum, the reproduction, the product fit, the hanging, the symbolism, the comparison.

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