 Like his sister Anna, Eugène Boch spent a large part of the funds, which they owed to their father's, Victor Boch, business success, on promoting other artists.They bought pictures from virtually all leading contemporaries of their time, the majority of whom were also their friends.Upon Eugène Boch's death in 1941, he bequeathed "The Poet" – that is Van Gogh's title for his portrait of Eugène Boch, which Boch received from Johanna van Gogh-Bonger in accordance to the last will of Vincent and Theo – to the Louvre.