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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. 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] My dear Theo, Many thanks for your letter and the 50-franc note which it contained. I also received Maurin's drawing, which is magnificent. That man is a great artist. Last night I slept in the house, and though there are some things still to be done, I feel very happy in it. Besides, I feel that I can make something lasting out of it, from which others can profit as well. Now money spent will not be money lost, and I think that you will soon see the difference. At present it reminds me of Bosboom's interiors, with the red tiles, the white walls, the furniture of white deal and walnut and the glimpses of an intense blue sky and greenery through the windows. Its surroundings, the public garden, the night cafés and the grocer's, are not Millet, but instead they are Daumier, absolute Zola. And that is quite enough to supply one with ideas, isn't it? Yesterday I had already written to you, ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/538.htm · 21.8k |
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] My dear Theo, Many thanks for your letter and the 50-franc note which it contained. I also received Maurin's drawing, which is magnificent. That man is a great artist. Last night I slept in the house, and though there are some things still to be done, I feel very happy in it. Besides, I feel that I can make something lasting out of it, from which others can profit as well. Now money spent will not be money lost, and I think that you will soon see the difference. At present it reminds me of Bosboom's interiors, with the red tiles, the white walls, the furniture of white deal and walnut and the glimpses of an intense blue sky and greenery through the windows. Its surroundings, the public garden, the night cafés and the grocer's, are not Millet, but instead they are Daumier, absolute Zola. And that is quite enough to supply one with ideas, isn't it? Yesterday I had already written to you, ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/538.htm · 21.8k |
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 : 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 |
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh : c. 16 September 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Arles, c. 16 September 1888 Relevant paintings: "Public Park with Weeping Willow: The Poet's Garden I," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Sunny Lawn in a Public Park," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Paul Gauguin)," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] My dear Theo, Probably I shall hear from you tomorrow morning, but I have time to write tonight, and the week has been rather eventful. I expect to go to live in the house tomorrow, but as I have bought some more things and have still more to add to them, and I am only speaking of what is strictly necessary - you must again send me 100 francs instead of 50. If I reckon 50 francs for myself for the past week and deduct them from the 300 francs you sent, all that is left, even with another extra 50 francs, is no more than the exact price of the two beds. So you will see that in spite of that I have already bought many other things beside the beds and the ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/537.htm · 17.0k |
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh : c. 26 September 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Arles, c. 26 September 1888 Relevant paintings: "Ploughed Field," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Sketch by Vincent," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Portrait of Milliet, Second Lieutenant of the Zouaves," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] Dear Theo, I have to thank you most kindly for the consignment of canvas and colours from Tasset's, which arrived in good condition and this time by parcel post. In my last letter I already told you that autumn has manifested itself in rain and bad weather. This has hampered me a little, but all the same I have just finished a size 30 canvas representing a ploughed field, done in the sunny intervals. [A sketch of "Ploughed Fields (The Furrows)" appeared here.] A blue sky with white clouds. An immense expanse of ground of an ashy lilac. Innumerable furrows and clods. A horizon of blue hills and green bushes with - [illegible]. This is another one that will take a long time to dry; pictures that are thickly painted must be treated like the stronger types of wine; one must let ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/541a.htm · 23.1k |
Vincent van Gogh to John Russell : c. 17 June 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to John Russell Arles, c. 17 June 1888 Relevant paintings: "Bridge at Trinquetaille," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Les Négresses (Aux mangos Tropiques)," Gauguin [Enlarge] "Sower," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] [Letter presented here in Vincent's unaltered English.] My dear Russell, For ever so long I have wanted to write you - but then the work has so taken me up. We have harvest time here at present and I am always in the fields. And when I sit down to write I am so abstracted by recollections of what I have seen that I leave the letter. For instance at the present occasion I was writing to you, and going to say something about Arles as it is - and as it was in the old days of Boccaccio. Well, instead of continuing the letter I began to draw on the very paper the head of the dirty little girl I saw this afternoon whilst I was painting a view of the river with a greenish yellow sky. The dirty “mudlark” I thought yet had a vague Florentine sort of figure like the heads in the Monticelli pictures, and reasoning and ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/501a.htm · 16.1k |
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] I am inclined to think that the letter Gauguin wrote you throws a clear light on the question. But I should not like to rely on the word of an artist of his merit when he says: You will have to pay my travelling expenses and my debts if you want me to come, for I myself have not got any money. But on the other hand, if this is the case, he ought to be very generous with his pictures. So that's that; however, in any case there would have to be money - but then I don't see much harm in the business. But those pictures, which will be sold one day, may freeze the interest on the purchase money invested for years to come. As a matter of fact, a picture for which you pay 400 francs today, and which you sell for 1000 francs after ten years, will still be sold at the current price, as all that time nothing could be done with the money. Well, you know this better than I. I should not be surprised if ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/538a.htm · 15.1k |
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh : c. 24 April 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Arles, c. 24 April 1888 Relevant paintings: "Orchard with Arles in background," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Orchard with plum trees," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] My dear Theo, I must begin by telling you that the letter you did not get was wrongly addressed by me, and so came back. In a moment of absent-mindedness, just like me, I addressed it to Rue de Laval instead of Rue Lepic. That being so, I will repeat what was in the letter as though it just happened, the visit of McKnight, Russell's friend, who also came again last Sunday. I am to go to see him, and his work, of which I have so far seen nothing. He is a Yankee, and probably paints much better than most Yankees do, but a Yankee all the same. Have I said enough? When I have seen his pictures or drawings, I'll tell you what I think of his work. Meantime, so much for the man. The chief object of this letter is to find out if you have started and how. And afterward - oh! This afterward - perhaps you will hardly know yourself. Well, it seems ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/479.htm · 16.4k |
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