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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(4 September 1888)
... out as far as colours are concerned.
Neither Gauguin nor Bernard has written again. I think that
Gauguin doesn't care a damn about it, because it isn't going to
be done at once, and I for my part, seeing that Gauguin has
managed to muddle along by himself... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 11 September 1888)
... is complicated by the payment of a
debt. Unless Gauguin pooled everything and let you have all his
work, so that we'd keep no accounts but make common cause
together. If we had a common purse and make common cause, I
think myself that after a few years' working... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 26 September 1888)
... drawings in the style of the others.
I wrote to him that since Gauguin had not definitely stated
if he would come or would not come I could not offer Bernard
the free hospitality, or even paid in pictures or drawings.
That here just his food alone would... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(28 September 1888)
... send you his letter with the
replies.
Certainly his arrival would be an increase of 100 percent in
the importance of this enterprise of doing painting in the
Midi. And once here, I don't see him leaving again because I
believe that he would take root here.... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(3 October 1888)
... make an exchange with the four of them.
He also says that Laval will come too, and that the other
two want to come. I should not ask anything better, but when it
is a question of several painters living a community life, I
stipulate at the outset that there... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Paul Gauguin
(3 October 1888)
... possible
for you to come here soon.
I must tell you that even while working I think continually
about the plan of setting up a studio in which you and I will
be permanent residents, but which both of us want to turn into
a shelter and refuge for friends,... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Emile Bernard
(6 October 1888)
... you would paint much better
pictures.
The idea of turning the painters into a sort of freemasonry
does not please me enormously. I profoundly despise
regulations, institutions, etc.; in short, what I am looking
for is different from dogmas, which, far from... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(7 October 1888)
...
the “Poet's Garden.”
So then I believe that it is your duty and mine to demand
comparative wealth just because we have very great artists to
keep alive. But at the moment you are as fortunate, or at least
fortunate in the same way, as Sensier... | Letter from Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh
(19 October 1888)
... What can be the cause of that?
So Gauguin is going to join you; it will mean a great change
in your life. I hope that your project of turning the house
into a refuge, where artists will feel at home, will be
successful.
I'll stop now,... |
