Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (mid August 1885) ... occasion
of your visit - yes.
Though you say today, “I am selling to the tune
of 500,000 fr. a year” - this does not impress me the
least little bit, as I am too much convinced of the difficulty
of keeping it up for one-half, or one-fifth,...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (c. 21 April 1888) ... reeds so that he can try it too.
This is important news - your journey to Brussels. You will
be able to judge how the old high-priced stuff is going there.
But what a business! For probably these fellows are planning
some move. Do you remember that we talked...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (28 May 1888) ... happier about
you. Now I cannot be.
These people's proposal to send you on short journeys across
the water is terribly upsetting to you. And I accuse myself of
upsetting you too - with my continual need of money.
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to John Russell (c. 17 June 1888) ... place with him, or he were here with me.
My brother has an exhibition of 10 new pictures by Claude
Monet - his latest works, for instance a landscape with red
sunset and a group of dark fir trees by the seaside. The red
sun casts an orange or blood red reflection...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (9 August 1888) ... there, and there's
no cure for it.
I think that when the day comes for you to free yourself of
those futile accounts and the absurdly complicated management
at Goupil's, you would gain enormously in influence with the
collectors; these complicated systems of...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (c. 13 August 1888) ... kind of Uncle to have left
you a legacy, but I cannot easily get it into my head that C.
M. and he did not actually condemn you to penal servitude for
life that time they refused to lend you the capital necessary
to set you up in business for yourself. This will always...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (c. 17 September 1888) ... money. Well, you know this better than I.
I should not be surprised if little by little you regained
your love for business, or at least if you got reconciled to
your present situation, as soon as you feel that the inventors
of new things in commerce do not know...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (2 July 1889) ... to see you again, you and your
wife.
At the same time, since you have married a Dutchwoman,
within a few years' time - sooner or later - it may revive the
business relations with Amsterdam or The Hague.
Well, once more, I have not seen a letter of...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh (c. 10 December 1889) ... I myself always
have plenty of fresh air, whereas he is always, always sitting
in his office with his head so full of bother. Indeed, they are
evil-minded fellows at Boussod's, too proud and tyrannical.
I am working on twelve large canvases, especially olive
...
