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| Lettre de Vincent van Gogh à Theo van Gogh
(18 March 1888)
... par nous, il nous faut sa réponse.
Tu sentiras comme moi que nous ne pouvons pas avancer
sans être catégoriquement renseignés sur ses intentions.
Si nous tenons comme désirable la création d'une exposition permanente
des impressionnistes à Londres et à Marseille, il va sans dire
que nous chercherons à les établir.
Reste donc de savoir: Tersteeg en sera-t-il ?
si ou non ?
Et sinon quelles sont ses intentions offensives, existent-elles oui ou pas ?
Et a-t-il calculé comme nous l'effet produit de baisse sur
les tableaux de grand prix actuellement, baisse qui, il me semble,
se produira probablement dès que les impressionnistes
auront la hausse. Remarquez que les vendeurs de tableaux
chers s'abîment eux-mêmes en s'opposant pour des raisons
politiques à l'avènement d'une école, qui depuis des années a
montré une énergie et une persévérance dignes de Millet, Daubigny
... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(18 March 1888)
... by us, he must give us an answer.
Like myself you will feel that we cannot proceed without
being categorically informed of his intentions.
If we consider it desirable to hold a permanent exhibition
of the impressionists in London and Marseilles, it goes without
saying that we'll try to set them up.
And if not, what are his intentions with regard to the
offensive, do they exist or not?
The question remains, will Tersteeg be in it? Yes or no?
And has he taken into account, as we have, the resulting
depreciation of the value of pictures now highly priced, a
depreciation that will, I think, probably set in as soon as the
impressionist's stock rises. You observe that the dealers in
expensive pictures ruin themselves by opposing for policy
reasons the advent of a school which for years has shown an
energy and perseverance worthy of Millet, Daubigny and
others.
But let me know if Tersteeg has written you, and what he may
have said. I will do nothing in this... | Lettre de Vincent van Gogh à Theo van Gogh
(c. 2 April 1888)
... digne de la cause que
nous plaidons.
Voici donc un plan d’attaque qui nous coûtera quelques uns des
meilleurs tableaux que nous ayons fabrique à nous deux valant certes
desous blusieurs pillets [sic] de mille vrans: enfin en tout cas nous
ayant coûté de l’argent et un lambeau de nôtre vie.
Mais ce serait une réponse a voix claire a de certaines insinuations
lourdes nous traitant plus ou moins comme de nous étions déjà
morts et une revanche de ton voyage de l’année passé lorsque
l’accueil qu’on la fait manquerait de chaleur. Suffit.
Supposons donc que d’abord nous donnions à Jet Mauve le
Souvenir de Mauve . Supposons que je dédire une étude
à Breitner (j’en ai une précisément comme l’étude
qui j’ai donne échange avec L Pissarro et celle
de Reid, des oranges avant plan blanc
fond bleu .)
Supposons que nous donnions quelque étude... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 2 April 1888)
... worthy of the cause we are
pleading.
Here is a plan of attack which will cost us several of the
best pictures you and I have made between us, and certainly
worth at least several 1000 franc notes 1 . In any
case they cost us money and a good piece of our lives.
But it would be an answer in a clear voice to certain heavy
insinuations, treating us as though we had already died, and a
revenge for your trip last year, when the welcome that they
made you lacked any warmth. Enough.
Suppose therefore that first of all we gave to Jet Mauve the
Souvenir de Mauve . Suppose I dedicate a study
to Breitner (I have one exactly like the study
which I exchanged with L. Pissarro and the one
Reid has, of oranges, foreground white,
background blue .)
Suppose we gave another study to our sister.
Suppose that we gave the Modern Museum in The Hague, since
we have many memories of The Hague, the two views of Montmartre
exhibited at the Independents .
One thing... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(9 April 1888)
... right, that is the great thing.
I must reach the point where my pictures will cover my
expenses, and even more than that, taking into account how much
was spent in the past. Well, it will come. I don't make a
success of everything, I admit, but I'm getting on. So far you
have not complained of my expenses here, but I warn you that if
I continue to work at the same rate, I shall have great
difficulty in making both ends meet. But the work is heavy
indeed.
If there should happen to be a month or a fortnight when you
were hard pressed, let me know and I will set to work on some
drawings, which will cost us less. I mean, you must not put
yourself out unnecessarily, there is so much to do here, all
sorts of studies, not the way it is in Paris, where you can't
sit down wherever you want.
If you can finance a rather heavy month, so much the better,
since orchards in bloom are the kind of thing one has some
chance of selling or exchanging.
But it occurred to... |
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