A page from the "Calendars" exhibit...
Search
Documents similar to http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/527.htm |
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. 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 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 |
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 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 : c. 29 August 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Arles, c. 29 August 1888 Relevant paintings: "Portrait of Patience Escalier," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Old Pair of Shoes," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] My dear Theo, I shall have to pay my rent on September 1, and if you could send the week's money the day you get your month's pay, I could pay the rent on time, then the outlay would be spread over two weeks. And if you could send the money on Sunday by letter or by a telegraph order, I should not be sorry to gain a day in this way. I have two models this week: an Arlésienne and the old peasant. I am doing him this time against a background of vivid orange which, although it does not pretend to be the image of a red sunset, may nevertheless give a suggestion of one. Unfortunately I am afraid that the little Arlésienne will not turn up for the rest of the picture. As a matter of fact, the last time she came, she asked me for all the money I had promised her for posing in advance, and as I made no objection to that, she has made off and I have not ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/529.htm · 14.6k |
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh : c. 2 April 1888 » Home Switch to: French < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Arles, c. 2 April 1888 Relevant paintings: "Pink Peach Tree in Blossom (Reminiscence of Mauve)," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Still Life with Basket of Apples," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Still Life with Basket of Apples (to Lucien Pissaro)," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Still Life with Basket and Six Oranges," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Vegetable Gardens in Montmartre: La Butte Montmartre," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Vegetable Gardens at Montmartre," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Langlois Bridge at Arles with Women Washing," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Couples in the Voyer d'Argenson Park at Asnieres," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Lithograph, Old man, head in hands," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] My dear Theo, I'm in a fever of work since the trees are in blossom and I want to do a Provençal orchard full of enormous brightness. To write with a clear head presents serious difficulties. Yesterday I wrote some letters which I destroyed later. I keep on thinking that we must ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/473.htm · 21.3k |
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh : c. 27 September 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Arles, c. 27 September 1888 Relevant paintings: "Sunny Lawn in a Public Park," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Poet's Garden II," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Public Park with Weeping Willow: The Poet's Garden I," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Ploughed Field," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Portrait of Milliet, Second Lieutenant of the Zouaves," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] My dear Theo, I know quite well that I already wrote you yesterday, but it has been such a lovely day again today. My great regret is that you cannot see what I am seeing here. Since seven o'clock this morning I have been sitting in front of something which after all is no great matter, a ball-shaped bush of cedar or cypress, planted in the grass. You already know this ball-shaped bush, since you already have a study of the garden. Enclosed also a sketch of my canvas, again a square size 30.[Painting lost] The bush is green, a little bronze and various other tints. The grass is very, very green, lemon-tinted emerald green. The sky is ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/541.htm · 21.6k |
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh : 11 August 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Arles, 11 August 1888 Relevant paintings: "Portrait of Patience Escalier," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Portrait of Patience Escalier, Shepherd in Provence," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Head of Joseph Roulin," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Poudre de Riz," Toulouse-Lautrec 1889 [Enlarge] "Portrait of Eugene Boch," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] Letter 520 Arles, 11 August 1888 My dear Theo, Shortly you are going to make the acquaintance of Mr. Patience Escalier, a sort of man with a hoe, former drover of the Camargue, now gardener at a farm in the Crau. Today I am sending you the drawing I made after this painting, as well as the drawing of the portrait of the postman Rollin [sic]. The colouring of this portrait of the peasant is less black than the potato eaters of Nuenen, but our highly civilized Parisian Portier - probably so called because he chucks pictures out - will be bothered by the same old problem. You have changed since then, but you still see that he has not, and it really is a pity that ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/520.htm · 20.1k |
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 |
2010 results found, top 500 sorted by relevance
Showing matches 1 - 10