Van Gogh was an artist who created some enormously famous paintings and his name is known throughout the world.

While Vincent van Gogh only lived to be 37 and really only began as an artist toward the last ten years of his life, he produced more than 2,000 pieces of art.

Van Gough suffered from mental illness and cut his own life short in 1890. Had he not committed suicide, there’s no telling what further masterpieces he could have produced.

And on the note of masterpieces, a sketchbook claimed to be Van Gogh’s has recently been made public. Among the many sketches within the notebook are drawings of the popular works, The Potato Eaters (1885) and Portrait of Pere Tanguy (1887).

Doretta Peppa, the current owner, concedes the sketchbook was likely plundered by the Nazis. But she inherited it from her father, a resistence fighter, and under Greek law the notebook is now recognized as hers.

The following BBC News video report discusses the sketchbook or notebook in detail: