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Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh : c. 25 November 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Arles, c. 25 November 1888 Relevant paintings: "Sketch by Vincent," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Sower," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] My dear Theo, Thanks for your kind letter and the 100-fr. note enclosed. I am very glad of Gauguin's success in the matter of the continuous sale. If he could have sold enough within a year from now to execute his plan to go to settle in Martinique, I should think his fortune would be made. Only, as I see it, he oughtn't to risk returning there before he has saved 5000 francs; according to him he will need 2000. But to my mind in that case he would not go away by himself but along with another man or with other men, and would found a studio there for good and all. But oh well, till then a lot of water will flow under the bridge. I am greatly interested in what you write about the Dutchmen. I hope to meet both of them personally someday. How old are they? I dare hope that ultimately they will find their coming to France was a good thing. Their having trouble with their ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/558a.htm · 16.5k |
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh : c. 23 November 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Arles, c. 23 November 1888 Relevant paintings: "Peach Tree in Blossom," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Vincent's Chair with His Pipe," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Paul Gauguin's Armchair," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] My dear Theo, Gauguin's canvas, “Breton Children,” has arrived and he has altered it very well. But though I quite like this canvas, it is all to the good that it is sold, and the two he is about to send you from here are thirty times better. I am speaking of the “Women Gathering Grapes” and the “Woman with the Pigs.” The reason for this is that Gauguin is beginning to get over that disorder of the liver or the stomach which has been tormenting him lately. But I am now writing to reply to what you said about having a little canvas of mine of a pink peach tree framed, I imagine to send to ces messieurs. I don't want to leave any doubt as to what I think of that. First, if it is your wish to let them have something of mine, good or bad, upon my honour if it can in any way give you any ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/563.htm · 21.1k |
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh : c. 12 November 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Arles, c. 12 November 1888 Relevant paintings: "Marcalle Roulin," Van Gogh 1888 [Enlarge] "Tarascon Diligence," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "The Red Vineyard," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] My dear Theo, I have received a letter from M. C. Dujardin on the subject of the exhibition of my pictures in his black hole. I am go disgusted at the idea of handing over a canvas in payment for the proposed exhibition that really there is only one possible answer to the gentleman's letter. The one you will find enclosed. Only I am sending it to you and not to him so that you may know what I think, and that you may simply tell him that I have changed my mind, and at the moment have no desire to exhibit. Getting angry with the scoundrel doesn't do the slightest bit of good, it is better to be conventionally polite. So no exhibition at the Revue Indépendante; I boldly venture to think that Gauguin is also of this opinion. In any case he is making no attempt to persuade me to do it. We have hardly exhibited, have we? ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/561.htm · 17.9k |
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh : c. 12 November 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Arles, c. 12 November 1888 Relevant paintings: "Marcalle Roulin," Van Gogh 1888 [Enlarge] "Tarascon Diligence," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "The Red Vineyard," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] My dear Theo, I have received a letter from M. C. Dujardin on the subject of the exhibition of my pictures in his black hole. I am go disgusted at the idea of handing over a canvas in payment for the proposed exhibition that really there is only one possible answer to the gentleman's letter. The one you will find enclosed. Only I am sending it to you and not to him so that you may know what I think, and that you may simply tell him that I have changed my mind, and at the moment have no desire to exhibit. Getting angry with the scoundrel doesn't do the slightest bit of good, it is better to be conventionally polite. So no exhibition at the Revue Indépendante; I boldly venture to think that Gauguin is also of this opinion. In any case he is making no attempt to persuade me to do it. We have hardly exhibited, have we? ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/561.htm · 17.9k |
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh : c. 25 July 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Arles, c. 25 July 1888 Relevant paintings: "Fishing Boats on the Beach at Saintes-Maries," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Zouave (Half Length)," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] My dear Theo, Many thanks for your kind letter. If you remember, mine ended with “we are getting old, that is what it is, the rest is imagination and doesn't exist.” Well, I said that more for myself than for you. And I said it because I felt the absolute necessity of behaving accordingly, of working, perhaps not more, but with a deeper understanding. Now you talk of the emptiness you feel everywhere, it is just the very thing I feel myself. Considering, if you like, the time in which we live a great and true renaissance of art, the worm-eaten official tradition still alive but really impotent and inactive, the new painters isolated, poor, treated like madmen, and because of this treatment actually becoming so, at least as far as their social life is concerned. Then remember that you are doing exactly the same work as these ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/514.htm · 22.5k |
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh : c. 21 October 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Arles, c. 21 October 1888 Relevant paintings: "Sketch by Vincent," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Lovers: The Poet's Garden IV," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] My dear Theo, Thank you for your letter and the 50-franc note it contained. Thank you for writing more about the picture by these Dutch artists. I have had gas put in the studio and in the kitchen, which has cost me 25 francs for the installation. If Gauguin and I worked every night for a fortnight, shouldn't we get it back? Only as G. may come any day now, I absolutely, absolutely need at least 50 francs. I am not ill, but without the slightest doubt I'd get that way if I do not eat really well and if I don't stop painting for a few days. As a matter of fact, I am again pretty nearly reduced to the madness of Hugo van der Goes in Emil Wauter's painting. And if it were not that I have almost a double nature,like that of a monk and that of a painter,I should have - and that long ago - been reduced completely and utterly to the aforesaid condition. ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/556.htm · 16.2k |
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh : c. 16 November 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Arles, c. 16 November 1888 Relevant paintings: "Pink Peach Tree in Blossom (Reminiscence of Mauve)," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Self portrait," Laval [Enlarge] "Sketch by Vincent," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Memory of the Garden at Etten," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Novel Reader," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] My dear Theo, Many thanks for the 100 francs you sent and for your letter. I know you will be pleased to hear that I have had a letter from Jet Mauve, thanking us for the picture. A very nice letter, in which she speaks of old times. I am going to answer it and I shall send some sketches in the letter besides. You will also be pleased to hear that we have an addition to the collection of portraits of artists. The self- portrait by Laval, extremely good. [Here was drawn a copy of the Laval self-portrait.] Also a marine by Bernard in exchange for canvases of mine. The portrait of Laval is very bold, very distinguished, and will be just one of the pictures you speak of, those one gets ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/562.htm · 15.7k |
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh : c. 6 November 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Arles, c. 6 November 1888 Relevant paintings: "The Red Vineyard," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "L'Arlesienne: Madame Ginoux with Gloves and Umbrella," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Les Alyscamps: Falling Autumn Leaves," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Les Alyscamps," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "The Red Vineyard," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] My dear Theo, Gauguin and I thank you very much for the 100 Fr. you sent and also for your letter. Gauguin is very pleased that you like what he sent from Brittany, and that other people who have seen them like them too. Just now he has in hand some women in a vineyard, altogether from memory, but if he does not spoil it or leave it unfinished it will be very fine and very unusual. Also a picture of the same night cafe that I painted too. I have done two canvases of falling leaves, which Gauguin liked, I think, and I'm working now on a vineyard all purple and yellow. Then I have an Arlésienne at last, a figure (size 30 Canvas) slashed on in an hour, background ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/559.htm · 18.3k |
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh : c. 12 September 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Arles, c. 12 September 1888 Relevant paintings: "Old Mill," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Rocks with Oak Tree," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Sower," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Night Cafe on Place Lamartine in Arles," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] My dear Theo, If Gauguin were working with me and if for his part he were fairly generous with pictures, doesn't it mean that you would be giving work to two artists who could do nothing without you? And while admitting that I think you are perfectly justified in saying that as far as money is concerned, you see no advantage in it, yet on the other hand you would be doing the same sort of thing as Durand Ruel, who bought pictures from Claude Monet in the days before anybody else had recognized his individuality. And Durand Ruel made nothing on it; at one time he was overloaded with the pictures and could not pass them on, but still, what he did remains well done, and now he can always say that he carried the day. If, however, I saw it would mean losing money, ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/535.htm · 19.7k |
Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh : c.25 July 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh Pont-Aven, c.25 July 1888 Relevant paintings: "Young Breton Wrestlers," Paul Gauguin July 1888 [Enlarge] "Letter sketch of Young Breton Wrestlers," Paul Gauguin July 1888 [Enlarge] My dear Vincent, I have just read your interesting letter and I quite agree with you on how little importance exactness is in art. Art is an abstraction, unfortunately one becomes more and more misunderstood. I would really like that we reach our goal: that is to say my journey to Provence. I always had the fancy to interpret the bullfights in my own way, as I understand them. I am starting to get the freedom of my faculties: my illness had weakened me and in my last studies I think that what I have done up to now is out of date. Naturally this band of pigs here find me quite mad, and I that rather pleases me because it proves to me that I am not. I have just finished a Breton fight that you will like, I am sure. [Gauguin drew a sketch of the Young Breton Wrestlers here.] Two kids blue pants and vermilion pants. One at ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/etc-Gauguin-GAC30.htm · 14.5k |
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