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| Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Emile Bernard
(c. 23 July 1888)
... white,
yellow, brown. It's charming.
Ah, Rembrandt! ...With all due admiration for Baudelaire, I
venture to presume, especially going by those verses, that he
knew virtually nothing about Rembrandt. Not long ago I found
and bought a small etching after Rembrandt... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Emile Bernard
(c. 25 July 1888)
... truly repay your trouble a thousandfold.
Look here, for instance, if I declare that the Ostade in the
Louvre representing “The Painter's Family” (man,
wife and a dozen children) is a picture infinitely worthy of
study and reflection, as well as “The... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Emile Bernard
(c. 4 August 1888)
... old fellow,
than in these studies.
In Rembrandt's studio that incomparable sphinx, Vermeer of
Delft, found this extremely solid technique which has never
been surpassed, which at present… we are burning
… to find. Oh, I know we are working... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh
(c. 27 August 1888)
... are truly two pictures of the
South.
I think of Monticelli terribly often here. He was a strong
man - a little cracked or rather very much so - dreaming of the
sun and of love and gaiety, but always harassed by poverty - of
an extremely refined taste as... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 22 September 1888)
... letter and the 100-fr. note it
contained. Milliet also came this morning, bringing me the
package of Japanese stuff and other things. Among them I very
much like the cabaret in two sheets, with the line of violet
girl musicians against the yellow lighted wall -... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(24 September 1888)
... to live, and many
other things.
I think the drawing of the “Blade of Grass” and
the carnations and the Hokusai in Bing's reproductions are
admirable.
But whatever they say, the most ordinary Japanese prints,
coloured in flat tones,... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 25 November 1888)
... drawings I am looking at now
reflect!
Have they read Silvestre's book on Eug. Delacroix, and also
the article on colour in the Grammaire des arts du dessin by
Ch. Blanc? Ask them this for me, and if they have not read
them, let them do so still. As for me,... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to J.J. Isacson
(25 May 1890)
... background , against a pink background .
I begin to feel more and more that one may look upon Puvis
de Chavannes as having the same importance as Delacroix, at
least that he is on a par with the fellows whose style
constitutes a “hitherto, but no further,”
... |
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