Vincent van Gogh is best known for his work as a painter. Most people will associate him with his extraordinary talent for colour and his ability to create unforgettable compositions in oil paint thickly worked on canvas. The fame of his painted oeuvre has long overshadowed his work as a draughtsman. Yet Van Gogh made many more works on paper than on the canvas. Indeed, before he even picked up a brush, Van Gogh was determined to master the basics of manipulating pencil, crayon or pen on paper. And his emergence as a draughtsman is every bit as fascinating and as dramatic as his parallel development as a painter in oils.