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Nuenen, 3-16 January 1884
...xtent. Similarly, some painters went to China and Japan, and I have seen excellent things from these countries. It pleases me very much that you go on being warmly attached to painting, and I believe ...
Arles, 21 February 1888
...now, were just like winter landscapes done by the Japanese. Here is my address: Restaurant Carrel, 30 Rue Cavalerie, (Departement Bouches du Rhône) Arles. I have only taken a little trip into th...
Arles, 18 March 1888
...at the country struck me as being as beautiful as Japan for the limpidity of the atmosphere and gay colour effects. The water makes patches of a beautiful emerald and a rich blue in the landscapes, su...
Arles, c. 7 May 1888
... if you like, I can make little pictures like the Japanese prints of all these drawings. But we can talk about that when you have seen them. At the moment it is a nuisance that I am practically compel...
Arles, 12 May 1888
...w and purple flowers; you know, it is a beautiful Japanese dream. I asked the cost of carriage for the consignment I sent by goods train, it will be 7 francs to the station in Paris. Seeing that I hav...
Arles, 27 May 1888
...gs, to be washed afterward in flat tints like the Japanese prints. I hope you will have as fine a Sunday in Paris as we are having here; there is a glorious sun, and no wind. Write me at once, I have ...
Arles, 5 June 1888
..., even if it is more expensive, consider: we like Japanese painting, we have felt its influence, all the impressionists have that in common; then why not go to Japan, that is to say to the equivalent ...
Arles, 6-11 June 1888
...m speaking of the simplification of colour in the Japanese manner - when in a green park with pink paths I see a gentleman dressed in black and a justice of the peace by trade (the Arab Jew in Daudet'...
Arles, 8 July 1888
...to Bing, in that I still have 90 francs' worth of Japanese stuff on commission. But when you think of how many people I have sent straight to Bing's, it is more profitable to him to let that go, and e...
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