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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 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. 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 Wilhelmina van Gogh : c. 22 June 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh Arles, c. 22 June 1888 Relevant paintings: "Self-Portrait in Front of the Easel," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] Letter W4 Arles, c. 22 June 1888 Dear sister, Many thanks for your letter, which I have been longing for. I dare not indulge my feelings to the extent of writing you often or of encouraging you to do the same. All this correspondence does not tend to keep us, who are of a nervous temperament, vigorous in case of possible immersions in melancholy of the type you mention in your letter, and to which I myself fall victim now and then. An acquaintance of ours used to assert that the best treatment for all diseases is to treat them with profound contempt. The remedy for the immersion which you mention is not, as far as I know, to be found growing among the herbs with healing powers. Nevertheless, I am in the habit of taking large quantities of bad coffee in such cases, not because it is very good for my already damaged collection of teeth, but because my strong imaginative powers enable me ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/W04.htm · 38.4k |
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] "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. 16 November 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh Arles, c. 16 November 1888 Relevant paintings: "Memory of the Garden at Etten," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Novel Reader," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] Letter W091 Arles, c. 16 November 1888 My dear sister, It gave me much pleasure to receive a reply from Mrs. Mauve at last. As I want to write her a letter one of these days, kindly send me her present address at once and without fail. Her letter was dated from The Hague, but she does not say whether she is going to stay there; my impression was that she was going to stay at Laren. She told me that she had received a nice letter from you. I received the letter dated from Middelharnis, and I thank you very much for it. It is a very good thing that you have at least started to read Au bonheur des dames, and so on. There are a lot of things in it - as in Guy de Maupassant too, for that matter. I have already answered you that I don't like Mother's picture enormously. I have just finished painting, to put in my bedroom, a memory of the garden at ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/W09.htm · 16.5k |
Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh : 30 March 1888 » Home Switch to: Dutch < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh Arles, 30 March 1888 Relevant paintings: "Pink Peach Tree in Blossom (Reminiscence of Mauve)," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Blossoming Almond Branch in a Glass with a Book," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Still Life with French Novels and a Rose," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] W3 Arles, 30 March 1888 Dear Sister, In order not to leave your letter unanswered, I will write at once after receiving your letter and Mother's, and the good wishes of you both. I want to tell you that I should be happy to write to you more often if it were not that a pretty considerable number of things contribute to my not being master of my own time, and you should not imagine that I am doing exactly what I like, and not doing what I should prefer to leave undone. Work has got me in its grip now, and I think forever, and though this is not something to be unhappy about, yet the mental picture I have of happiness is different. In the first place, it pleased me enormously that Theo and Mr. Tersteeg have ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/W03.htm · 17.6k |
Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh : 31 July 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh Arles, 31 July 1888 Relevant paintings: "Flowering Garden with Path," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "La Mousm," [Enlarge] "Sunny Lawn in a Public Park," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Zouave (Half Length)," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Les Négresses (Aux mangos Tropiques)," Gauguin [Enlarge] "Martinique (At the Pond's Edge)," Gauguin [Enlarge] W05 Arles, 31 July 1888 Dear Sister, I will answer your letter of this morning without delay. I shall probably hear from Paris by tomorrow what Theo is going to do, whether he will be able to get away. I don't doubt that he will go to you if he can. It is not always admirable for a person one knows to set out on the great journey to that other hemisphere of life whose existence we only surmise. But it goes without saying that my best wishes are with today's traveler. I am working very hard now, and I think the summer here extremely beautiful, more beautiful than I ever saw it in the ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/W05.htm · 22.6k |
Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh : 9 and 16 September 1888 » Home Switch to: French < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh Arles, 9 and 16 September 1888 Relevant paintings: "Portrait of Eugene Boch," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Night Cafe on Place Lamartine in Arles," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Night café on Place Lamartine," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Three White Cottages in Saintes-Maries," 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] Letter W071 Arles, 9 and 16 September 1888 My dear sister, Your letter gave me a great deal of pleasure, and today I have the leisure to calmly reply. So your visit to Paris was quite a success. I should very much like you to come here next year too. At the moment I am furnishing the studio in order to always be ready to put somebody up. Because there are 2 little rooms upstairs looking onto a very pretty public garden, and from which one can see the sun rise in the morning. I will arrange one of these rooms to ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/W07.htm · 22.5k |
Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh : c. 28 February 1888 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh Arles, c. 28 February 1888 Dear Sister, I for my part might say just as well that I shall stop writing at the very moment you reply. The simplest thing is not to write if it causes too much trouble and the inclination is not always there. But, however this may be, it is an excellent thing that you are beginning to acquaint yourself with all the mischief brewed by that villain Voltaire, and you will surely find that in Candide Voltaire already had the impertinence to laugh at the “highly serious life, which we ought only to use for, and devote to, the best ends.” And I need not tell you that this crime is something horrible in itself. I cannot write very well about Mauve; I think of him every day, but that's all. 1 It was a great shock to me; but personally, as a human being, he may have been quite different from what people said of him once in a while - that is, more deeply engrossed in life itself than in art perhaps; and I loved him as a human being. Now it is so hard for me to imagine that those ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/W02.htm · 14.2k |
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