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Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh : c. 21 August 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Arles, c. 21 August 1888 Relevant paintings: "Three Sunflowers in a Vase," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Still Life: Vase with Five Sunflowers," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Quay with men unloading sand barges," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Coal Barges," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Coal Barges," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] My dear Theo, I write in great haste to tell you that I have had a note from Gauguin, saying that he has not written much, but that he is quite ready to come South as soon as the opportunity arises. They are enjoying themselves very much painting, arguing and fighting with the worthy Englishmen; he speaks well of Bernard's work, and B. speaks well of Gauguin's. I am hard at it, painting with the enthusiasm of a Marseillais eating bouillabaisse, which won't surprise you when you know that what I'm at is the painting of some big sunflowers. I have three canvases going - 1st, three huge flowers in a green vase, ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/526.htm · 17.0k |
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh : c. 14 August 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Arles, c. 14 August 1888 Relevant paintings: "Painter on His Way to Work," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Bridge at Trinquetaille," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Sower," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Canal with Women Washing," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Pink Peach Tree in Blossom (Reminiscence of Mauve)," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Sketch by Vincent," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Quay with Men Unloading Sand Barges," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Quay with men unloading sand barges," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] Letter 524 Arles, c. 14 August 1888 My dear Theo, I spent yesterday evening with the 2nd lieutenant; he expects to leave here on Friday, then he will stop a night at Clermont, and from Clermont he will send you a wire to tell you by what train he will arrive Sunday morning. The roll he is bringing contains 35 studies, among which there are many I am desperately dissatisfied with, but which I am sending anyway, since at all events they will give you a vague idea of the very fine subjects ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/524.htm · 24.4k |
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh : c. 27 August 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Arles, c. 27 August 1888 Relevant paintings: "Still Life: Vase with Fourteen Sunflowers," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Peonies," Manet [Enlarge] "Still Life: Vase with Five Sunflowers," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] My dear Theo, Would you like to ask Tasset's opinion on the following question? To me it seems as though the more finely a colour is brayed, the more it becomes saturated with oil. Now needless to say, we don't care overmuch for oil. If we painted like M. Gérôme and the other delusive photographers, we should doubtless ask for very finely brayed colours. But we on the contrary do not object to the canvas having a rough look. If then, instead of braying the colour on a stone for God knows how many hours, it was brayed just long enough to make it manageable, without worrying too much about the fineness of the powder, you would get fresher colours which would perhaps darken less. If he wants to make a trial of it with the three chromes, the malachite, the vermilion, the orange lead, the cobalt ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/527.htm · 16.7k |
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh : c. 17 September 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Arles, c. 17 September 1888 Relevant paintings: "Lane in the Public Garden at Arles," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Park at Arles with the Entrance Seen through the Trees," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Public Park with Weeping Willow: The Poet's Garden I," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Portrait of Eugene Boch," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Paul Gauguin)," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Quay with Men Unloading Sand Barges," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Old Mill," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] My dear Theo, I wrote to you already, early this morning, then I went away to go on with a picture of a garden in the sunshine. Then I brought it back and went out again with a blank canvas, and that also is finished. And now I want to write you again. Because I have never had such a chance, nature here being so extraordinarily beautiful. Everywhere and all over the vault of heaven is a marvellous blue, and the sun sheds a radiance of pale sulphur, and it is soft and as lovely as the ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/539.htm · 26.2k |
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh : c. 27 August 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Arles, c. 27 August 1888 Relevant paintings: "Still Life: Vase with Fourteen Sunflowers," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Still Life with Grapes, Pears and Lemons," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Peonies," Manet [Enlarge] "Portrait of Patience Escalier," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] My dear Theo, Many thanks for your letter and for the 50-fr. note it contained. Certainly it is not out of the question that later on our sister might come and live with us. It speaks well for her taste that she likes sculpture; I was very glad to hear it. Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises colour. If only it keeps this promise. The sunflowers are getting on, there is a new bunch of 14 flowers on a greenish-yellow ground, so it is exactly the same effect - but in a larger size, a 30 canvas - as the still life with the quinces and lemons, which you already have - but in the sunflowers the painting is much more simple. Do you remember that we ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/528.htm · 17.3k |
Vincent van Gogh to Emile Bernard : c. 18 August 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Emile Bernard Arles, c. 18 August 1888 Relevant paintings: "Potato Eaters," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Portrait of Patience Escalier, Shepherd in Provence," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Quay with Men Unloading Sand Barges," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] My dear Bernard, I want to do figures, figures and more figures. I cannot resist that series of bipeds from the baby to Socrates, and from the woman with black hair and white skin to the woman with yellow hair and a sunburned brick-red face. In the meantime I am mostly doing other things. Thanks for your letter. This time I am writing in a great hurry and greatly exhausted. I am very pleased you have joined Gauguin. Ah! I have another figure all the same which is an absolute continuation of certain studies of heads I did in Holland. I showed them to you one day along with a picture from that period, “The Potato Eaters”; I wish I could show you this one. It is still a study, in which colour plays a part such as the black and white of a drawing could not possibly ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/B15.htm · 15.8k |
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh : 15 August 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Arles, 15 August 1888 Relevant paintings: "Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Quay with men unloading sand barges," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Quay with Men Unloading Sand Barges," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] My dear Theo, You will have got my wire telling you that 2nd lieutenant Milliet will arrive in Paris on Friday morning; he will arrive at the Gare de Lyon at 5:15 in the morning and go from there straight to the Cercle Militaire in the Avenue de l'Opéra. It would be simplest for both of you if you went to see him there at 7 o'clock sharp in the morning. Of course you could also meet him at the Gare de Lyon itself, but to begin with that is farther off, and then you would have to get up very early. He has been very nice to me, particularly these last few days. He will return to Paris for a week, but he is spending the greater part of his leave in the North. I am very glad to have these ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/525.htm · 16.9k |
Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh : c. 21 August 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh Arles, c. 21 August 1888 Relevant paintings: "Les Négresses (Aux mangos Tropiques)," Gauguin [Enlarge] "Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] W6 Arles, c. 21 August 1888 Dear Sister, I write you these few words in a hurry, as I don't want to postpone telling you how pleased I am that you are in Paris, and I suppose you are going to see a lot of things in the days to come. It is not quite impossible that next year, when I shall be living with my friend Gauguin, you will happen to go as far as the Mediterranean. I am convinced you too will think it beautiful here. What is your opinion of that picture of Gauguin's, the one with those Negresses which Theo has? - I could imagine you might understand it. At the moment I am working on a bunch of twelve sunflowers in a yellow earthenware pot, and I intend to decorate the whole studio with nothing but sunflowers. I hope you will go often to the Luxembourg, and also to go see the modern pictures in the Louvre, so that ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/W06.htm · 15.1k |
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh : 8 August 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Arles, 8 August 1888 Relevant paintings: "Garden with flowers," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Garden with sunflowers," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Garden with flowers," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Flowering Garden with Path," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Harvest landscape," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Sower," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Fishing boats at sea," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Fishing boats at sea," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Flowering Garden," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Seated Zouave," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] My dear Theo, I have just sent off three big drawings, as well as some other ones, and the two lithographs by de Lemud. The little cottage garden done vertically is, I think, the best of the three big ones. The one with the sunflowers is a little garden of a bathing establishment, the third garden, horizontal, is the one from which I made some painted studies as well. Under the blue sky the orange, yellow, red splashes of the flowers take on an amazing brilliance, ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/519.htm · 24.3k |
Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh : c. 27 August 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh Arles, c. 27 August 1888 Relevant paintings: "Still Life: Vase with Fourteen Sunflowers," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] Letter W081 Arles, c. 27 August 1888 My dear sister, It will really simplify the writing of my letter if you will let me write in French. I am quite delighted to hear that you get more excited by sculpture than by painting - all the more since Theo assures me that your judgment of pictures is sound too. Of course this cannot yet be a fixed taste that would never waver; but having intuition, instinct, is already a great thing, and it is exactly what not everybody always has. But all the same I am very curious to know what impression the Luxembourg will make on you. It is true that at moments, when I am in a good mood, I think that what is alive in art, and eternally alive, is in the first place the painter and in the second place the picture. Never mind, it is of no importance - however, to see fellows work ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/W08.htm · 17.2k |
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