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Paul Signac to Vincent van Gogh : 4 April 1889 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Paul Signac to Vincent van Gogh Arles, 4 April 1889 [Postcard written by Signac to Vincent, from Cassis (B.d.R.), postmarked April 4, 1889, addressed to “L'Hôtel Dieu,” Arles.] My dear friend, After having rambled along the coast, I settled in Cassis. I am sending you my address so that you can let me know how you are getting on. I have written to your brother, but he has not answered me at all. With a cordial handshake, Yours, P. Signac 2 Place de la République - Cassis At this time, Vincent was 36 year old Source: Paul Signac. Letter to Vincent van Gogh. Written 4 April 1889 in Arles. Translated by Mrs. Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, edited by Robert Harrison, number . URL: http://webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/19/583a.htm. This letter may be freely used, in accordance with the terms of this site. » Home < Previous Next > Choose topic... art: equipment influences material materials supplies support technique theory attitude: clergy death family Father Mother parents people reclusive sisters women business: co-op ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/19/583a.htm · 11.4k |
Vincent van Gogh to Paul Signac : c. 10 April 1889 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Paul Signac Arles, c. 10 April 1889 Relevant paintings: "Sketch by Vincent," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "La Crau with Peach Trees in Blossom," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "View of Arles with Trees in Blossom," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Sketch by Vincent," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] Letter 583b Arles, c. 10 April 1889 My dear friend Signac, Many thanks for your postcard and the information it contained. As to my brother's not having replied to your letter, I am inclined to think that it is hardly his fault. I myself have not heard from him for a fortnight. The fact is that he is in Holland, where he is getting married one of these days. Well, look here, without denying the least bit in the world the advantages of marriages, once it has been contracted, and of being quietly settled down in one's own home, when I think of the obsequial pomp of the reception and the lamentable congratulations on the part of the two families (still in a state of civilization), not to mention the fortuitous appearances in those ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/19/583b.htm · 16.4k |
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh : c. 13 April 1889 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Arles, c. 13 April 1889 Relevant paintings: "La Crau with Peach Trees in Blossom," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "View of Arles with Trees in Blossom," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] My dear Theo, I am rather surprised that you have not written to me once during these days. However, as on the previous occasion when you went to Holland, it is mostly accidental. I hope that everything has gone off well with you. Meanwhile I have been obliged to ask Tasset for 10 meters of canvas and some tubes. And I still need: 12 Zinc white Big tubes 1 Vermilion Big tubes 1 Emerald 4 Malachite green 2 Cobalt 3 Chrome 1 2 ultramarine 1 Chrome 11 2 Geranium lake Medium tubes I have six studies of the spring, two of them big orchards. It is very urgent, because these effects are so short-lived. So write me by return mail. I've taken an apartment consisting of two little rooms (at 6 to 8 francs per month, water included) belonging to M. Rey. It is certainly not expensive but nothing like as ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/19/584.htm · 23.8k |
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh : 26 March 1889 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Arles, 26 March 1889 [Letter written by Signac to Theo] Dear Mr. Van Gogh, I found your brother in perfect health, physically and mentally. Yesterday afternoon and again this morning we went for a walk together. He took me along to see his pictures, many of which are very good, and all of which are very curious. His courteous doctor, the house physician Rey, is of the opinion that, if he should lead a very methodical life, eating and drinking normally and at regular hours, there would be every chance that the terrible crises would not repeat themselves at all. He is quite willing to keep him all the time that would be necessary. He thinks that all the expenses of his stay in the hospital will have to be defrayed by the municipality, because it was at the administration's demand that he was kept in the asylum. At any rate, if he does not go back to Paris, which in Mr. Rey's opinion would be preferable, it would be necessary for him to move to another house, as his neighbours are hostile to him. This is ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/19/581a.htm · 12.8k |
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh : 24 March 1889 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Arles, 24 March 1889 Relevant paintings: "Still Life: Bloaters on a Piece of Yellow Paper," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Still Life with Bloaters," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "Still Life with Bloaters," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] My dear Theo, I am writing to tell you that I have seen Signac, and it has done me quite a lot of good. He was so good and straightforward and simple when the difficulty of opening the door by force or not presented itself - the police had closed up the house and destroyed the lock. They began by refusing to let us do it, but all the same we finally got in. I gave him as a keepsake a still life which had annoyed the good gendarmes of the town of Aries, because it represented two bloaters, and as you know they, the gendarmes, are called that. You remember that I did this same still life two or three times in Paris, and exchanged it once for a carpet in the old days. That is enough to show you how meddlesome and what idiots these people are. I found Signac very quiet, though ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/19/581.htm · 18.5k |
Vincent van Gogh to Paul Gauguin : 22 or 23 January 1889 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Paul Gauguin Arles, 22 or 23 January 1889 Relevant paintings: "Still Life: Vase with Fourteen Sunflowers," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] "La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin)," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge] My dear friend Gauguin, Thank you for your letter. Left behind alone on board my little yellow house - as it was perhaps my duty anyway to be the last to leave - I am not a little put out at my friends' departure. Roulin got his transfer to Marseilles and has just left. It has been touching to see him these last few days with little Marcelle, making her laugh and dandling her on his knee. His transfer means his being separated from his family, and you will not be surprised that the man whom you and I one evening nicknamed “the passer-by,” was very heavy-hearted. And so was I, on witnessing that and other upsetting things. When he sang to his child, his voice took on a strange timbre in which one could hear the voice of a woman rocking a cradle or of a sorrowing wet-nurse, and then another trumpet sound like a clarion ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/19/VG.htm · 16.2k |
Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh : 24 April 1889 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh Arles, 24 April 1889 Relevant paintings: "The Jewish Bride," Rembrandt van Rijn 1665 [Enlarge] Letter T 5 Paris, 14 April 1889 My dear Vincent, I was greatly touched by your letter, which we received yesterday 1; really, you are making far too much of something which is entirely natural, without taking into account that you have repaid me many times over, by your work as well as by your friendship, which is of greater value than all the money I shall ever possess. It is very painful for me to know that you are still in an imperfect state of health. Though it seems to me that nothing in your letter betrays a weakness of the mind - on the contrary - the fact that you deem it necessary to go to a sanatorium is in itself rather serious. Let's hope that this is meant only as a preventative measure. Seeing that I know you well enough to consider you capable of all imaginable sacrifices, I have been contemplating the possibility that you have thought of this solution in order to inconvenience less those who ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/19/T5.htm · 15.9k |
Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh : 16 March 1889 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh Arles, 16 March 1889 Letter T 4 Paris, 16 March 18891 My dear brother, I hear that you are not better yet, which causes me a good deal of grief. I so wish you could tell me how you are feeling, for there is nothing more distressing than this uncertainty, and if you could tell me how things are with you, I might be able to do something sooner to give you solace. You have done so much for me that it is a great sorrow for me to know that, precisely at this time when in all probability I am going to have days of happiness with my dear Jo, you are passing through days of misery. She had the fond idea that, by reason of her wanting to live my life as much as possible, you might have been a brother to her, as you have always been to me. We hope from the bottom of our hearts that you will be able to recover your health completely, and that you will be able to resume your work within a short time. While arranging my new apartment it is such a pleasure for me to look at your pictures. They make the rooms so gay, ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/19/T4.htm · 13.2k |
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh : c. 25-28 April 1889 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Arles, c. 25-28 April 1889 My dear Theo, Thanks for your kind letter, thanks for the good news it contained and also for the 100-franc note. I was very, very glad to hear that you feel easier in your mind since your marriage. Then one thing that gave me great pleasure was your saying that Mother looks as if she were growing younger. Naturally very soon, or even now already, her mind will be running on seeing you with a child. That is dead certain. I very much regret for your sake and for your wife's too that you are not living at Ville d'Avray, for instance, instead of in Paris. But that will come, I hope. The great thing now is that you should pick up again instead of wearing yourself down. I went to see M. Salles and took your letter for the director of the asylum at St. Rémy, and he is going there today, so I hope it will be fixed up by the end of the week. For myself, I shouldn't be unhappy or discontented if some time from now I could enlist in the Foreign Legion for five years (they take men up to ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/19/587.htm · 15.8k |
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh : 24 April 1889 » Home < Previous Next > Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Arles, 24 April 1889 My dear Theo, I have seen M. Salles again, and he said that he has written to you. I think that this will be for the best, and I see no other way. The power of thought is coming back to me gradually, but I am much less able to manage practical things than hitherto. I am absent-minded and could not direct my own life just now. But let's leave that alone as much as possible. How are things going, are you back? I must tell you that I think you may find M. Salles' letter still addressed to Rue Lepic. How are things at home? I think Mother must have been pleased. I assure you that I am much calmer now that I can tell myself that you have a companion for good. Above all, do not imagine that I am unhappy. I feel deeply that this has been at work within me for a very long time already, and that other people, seeing symptoms of mental derangement, have naturally had apprehensions better founded than my unfounded certainty that I was thinking normally, which was not the case. So that has ... http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/19/586.htm · 15.2k |
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