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| Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Emile Bernard
(6 October 1888)
... the first place
I am always smoking a pipe, and then I have always had an
unutterable horror of sitting like that on precipitous cliffs
verging on the sea, as I suffer from vertigo. So if that is
meant to be my portrait, I protest against the aforementioned
improbabilities.
1 am terribly absorbed in decorating my house; I dare
believe it will be rather to your taste, although it is
certainly very different from what you do. But at the time, you
spoke to me about pictures, one representing flowers, another
trees, another fields. Well, I myself have the “Poet's
Garden” (2 canvases; among the sketches you have there is
the first conception of it , done after a smaller study that is
already at my brother's) . Then the “Starry Night,”
further the “Vineyard,” then the “`Furrows,”
then the view of the house, which might be called “The
Street.” So that there is a certain unintentional
consecutiveness.... | Lettre de Vincent van Gogh à Theo van Gogh
(20 May 1890)
... caractéristique et pittoresque.
J'ai vu M. le Dr Gachet, qui a fait
sur moi l'impression d'être assez excentrique, mais son expérience de
docteur doit le tenir lui-même en équilibre en combattant le mal nerveux,
duquel certes il me paraît attaqué au moins aussi
gravement que moi.
Il m'a piloté dans une auberge où l'on demandait 6 francs par jour.
De mon côté j'en ai trouvé une où je payerai 3.50 par jour.
Et jusqu'à nouvel ordre je crois devoir y rester. Lorsque
j'aurai fait quelques études, je verrai s'il y aurait avantage
à changer, mais cela me paraît injuste, lorsqu'on veut et peut
payer et travailler comme un autre ouvrier, d'avoir à payer
quand même le double presque, parce que l'on travaille à de la peinture.
Enfin je commence par l'auberge à 3.50.
Probablement tu verras le Dr Gachet cette semaine - il a un
très beau Pissarro, hiver avec maison rouge... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(20 May 1890)
... characteristic
and picturesque.
I have seen Dr. Gachet, who made the
impression on me of being rather eccentric, but his experience as a doctor must keep him
balanced while fighting the nervous trouble from which he
certainly seems to me to be suffering at least as seriously as
I.
He piloted me to an inn where they asked 6 francs a day. All by
myself I found one where I will pay 3.50 fr. a day.
And until further notice I think I will stay there.
When I have done some studies, I shall see if it would be
better to move, but it seems unfair to me, when you are willing
and able to pay and work like any other labourer, to have to
pay almost double because you work at painting. Anyway, I am
going to the inn at 3.50 first.
Probably you will see Doctor Gachet this week - he has a very
fine Pissarro, winter with a red house in the snow, and two
fine bouquets by Cézanne.
Also another Cézanne, of the village. And I in my
turn will gladly, very gladly,... |
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