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The most comprehensive primary source on Van Gogh is his correspondence with his younger brother, Theo.Their lifelong friendship, and most of what is known of Vincent's thoughts and theories of art, are recorded in the hundreds of letters they exchanged from 1872 until 1890. [8]
Van Gogh depicts Adeline, rather than a photographic resemblance, with "impassioned aspects" of contemporary life through the "modern taste for color." [49] Van Gogh wrote to his brother: “Last week I did a portrait of a girl about sixteen, in blue against a blue background, the daughter of the people with whom I am staying. I have given her ...
In exchange, Van Gogh gave the Roulins one painting for each family member. [5] As the Roulin family was similar in size to Van Gogh's own, in his psychological approach Lubin suggested that Van Gogh may have adopted them as a substitute. [6] Van Gogh painted the family of postman Joseph Roulin in the winter of 1888, every member more than once ...
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Wheat Fields is a series of dozens of paintings by Dutch Post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh, products of his religious studies and sermons, connection to nature, appreciation of manual laborers and desire to provide a means of offering comfort to others.
Van Gogh's drawing of 87 Hackford Road. In July 1869, Van Gogh's uncle, “Cent” Van Gogh, helped him obtain a position with the art dealer Goupil & Cie in The Hague.After his training, in June 1873, Goupil transferred him to London, where he lodged at 87 Hackford Road, Brixton, [1] and worked at Messrs. Goupil & Co., 17 Southampton Street. [2]
Little is known of van Gogh's activities during the two years he lived with his brother, Theo, in Paris, 1886–1888. The fact that he had painted Sunflowers already is only revealed in the spring of 1889, when Gauguin claimed one of the Arles versions in exchange for studies he had left behind after leaving Arles for Paris.
Jan Hulsker, Vincent and Theo van Gogh: A Dual Biography, Fuller Publications, 1990, ISBN 0-940537-05-2. Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith: Van Gogh: The Life, Random House, 2011, 976 pages. ISBN 978-0-375-50748-9; Ronald Pickvance: Van Gogh in Saint-Rémy and Auvers (exhibition catalog Metropolitan Museum of Art), New York: Abrams, 1986.