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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(early April 1884)
... of things toward the beginning of March.
Your reply was evasive, it certainly was not
straightforward, I mean it was not something like this:
“Vincent, I see the reasonableness of a number of your
grievances, and I approve of your proposal to make an... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 1 November 1884)
... I shall be
worth more than I am now.
Then later on, when I am somewhat better off, I shall be
glad to try to give you new hints about that problem of
reforming the art trade, about which I certainly have my own
ideas, arising from my own experience with... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(2nd half June 1885)
... how to
get to the end of the month.
At times it makes me quite melancholy that the result is
always “unsaleable.”
But I go on, and harden myself against it.
Others have had to bear it too. Goodbye,
Ever yours, Vincent
... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(2nd half June 1885)
... but act according to your
discretion. If I could earn something with my work, if we had
some firm ground, be it ever so little, under our feet for our
daily existence, and if then the desire to become an artist
took for you the form of, let me say, Hennebeau... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(late October 1885)
... and superficially people criticize.
You must just let me maintain my pessimism about the art
trade as it is these days, for it does not at all include
discouragement. This is my way of reasoning. Supposing I am
right in considering that curious haggling about... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(28 November 1885)
... and
certainly doesn't look dreary.
Now that I have the 3 studies I took along with me here, I
shall try to make contact with the marchands de tableaux
[picture dealers], who seem, however, to live for the most part
in private houses, with no display windows... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(6-7 December 1885)
... seen from my window ,
two in the park. I have exhibited one of those
at a dealer's. Further, I have given the ones I brought along
from the country to two others on commission. At a fourth, I
can exhibit a view of the quay as soon as the weather permits
me... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 15 December 1885)
... and went to show it to
some dealers. Two of them were not at home, and one did not
like it, and one complained bitterly that in a fortnight
literally not a single person had shown his face in the store.
This is not very encouraging, especially when the weather... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(early January 1886)
... that there are some who want
them.
Today I spoke to a photographer's assistant, and asked him
if he couldn't procure me orders for portraits. He wanted a
commission for every woman he would bring to me for a portrait.
I let the matter rest only in so far... |
