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". . . mi estas aventuristo ne laŭ mia propra elekto sed pro la sorto, kaj sentas min nenie tiom fremdulo kiom en mia propra familo kaj propra lando."

Vincent van Gogh
Letero 459a
Aŭgusto/Oktobro, 1886


Letero

De

Al

Ŝlosilvortoj

Eltiraĵo / Tuta teksto

Ligo al la menciitaj pentraĵoj

9a

London
2 July 1873

Vincent The Van Stockum-Haanebeek family Rotten Row, Hyde Park, Van Beers, Elisabeth The neighbourhood where I live is quite beautiful, and so quiet and intimate that you almost forget you are in London.

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10a

London
7 August 1873

Vincent The Van Stockum-Haanebeek family John Keats, Crystal Palace, the Tower, Madame Tussaud's, Tersteeg, Marinus, Iterson Tuta teksto ---
11a

London
October, 1873

Vincent The Van Stockum-Haanebeek family Anker, Boughton, Muyden, Feyen, Bourguereau, Michelet Tuta teksto ---
12a

London
20 November 1873

Vincent Carolien van Stockum-Haanebeek Theo All is well with me, but I am up to my ears in work and have only a moment to spare.

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13a

London
9 February 1874

Vincent The Van Stockum-Haanebeek family --- I live a rich life here, 'having nothing yet possessing all.' At times I am inclined to believe that I am gradually turning into a cosmopolite; that is, neither a Dutchman, nor an Englishman, nor yet a Frenchman, but simply a man.

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14a

London
3 March 1874

Vincent The Van Stockum-Haanebeek family Anna, Poten, Tersteeg Tuta teksto ---
60

Ramsgate
14-17 April 1876

Vincent His parents Zevenbergen, Mr. Provily, Canterbury, Stokes We have often parted already; this time there was more sorrow in it than there used to be, but also more courage because of the firmer hope, the stronger desire, for God's blessing.

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69a

Welwyn
17 June 1876

Anna van Gogh Theo van Gogh Vincent . . . no one can imagine what a happy life I lead here, surrounded by so much love.

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81

Isleworth
17-18 November 1876

Vincent His parents Gladwell, Jones, Ary Scheffer Tomorrow I must be in the two remotest parts of London: in Whitechapel – that very poor part which you have read about in Dickens . . . .

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87a

Dordrecht
8 March 1877

Vincent Uncle Cor Scheffer, Theo, Anna I like being in Holland again, although the work across the Channel, notwithstanding all the trouble and profound disappointment, was dear to me.

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91a

Dordrecht
8 April 1877

Theodorus van Gogh (Vincent and Theo's father) Theo van Gogh --- Oh, we can make things so pleasant for each other, isn't this a great aim in life?

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141

Brussels
16 February 1881

Vincent His parents Tersteeg Only if I study drawing thus seriously and thoroughly, always trying to portray truly what I see, shall I arrive; and then, notwithstanding the inevitable expenses, I shall make a living by it.

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165a

Etten
1881

Vincent Uncle Cor --- Tuta teksto ---
334

Drenthe
c. 27 October 1883

Vincent His parents Heike And that in my opinion the nearer one gets to the large cities, the further one gets into the darkness of degeneration and stupidity and wickedness.

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351a

Nuenen
3-16 January 1884

Vincent Furnée Algeria, Egypt, China, Japan With me things are going fairly well here in Brabant, at least I find nature here very stimulating.

Tuta teksto

Weaver Facing Left: F 1107, JH 445; Wood Auction, A: F 1113, JH 438; Weaver Facing Left: F 1114, JH 444
399a

Nuenen
9 April 1885

Vincent Anton Kerssemakers --- Tuta teksto Potato Eaters, The: F 78, JH 734; Peasant and Peasant Woman Planting Potatoes: F 129a, JH 727; Peasant Man and Woman Planting Potatoes: F 1225, JH 729; Two Peasant Women Working in a Field: F 1228, JH 730
419a

Nuenen
3 August 1885

Vincent Mr. Furnée --- I have only one thing, and that is steadily improving: I mean my pictures and my drawings.

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Nuenen
26 August 1886
(excerpt only)

Wil van Gogh Line Kruysse --- You don't know what a hard life [Vincent] has had, and who can say what is still in store for him.

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459a

Paris
August/October, 1886

Vincent Horace M. Livens Delacroix, Degas, Claude Monet, Allen, Briet, Rink, Durant, Millet, Corot, Daubigny, Dupré, Mrs. Roosmalen . . . I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate, and feeling nowhere so much myself a stranger as in my family and country.

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477a

Arles
circa c. 21 April 1888

Vincent John Russell McKnight, Sicily, Fabian, Reid, Monticelli, Michel Ange, Rafael, Mantegna, Botticelli, Cimabue, Giotto, Bellini, P. Veronese, Titian, Velasquez, Goya Tuta teksto ---
494a (draft)

Arles
28 May 1888

Vincent Paul Gauguin Russell, Guillaumin, Bernard But are you willing to share with me here? If we combine, there may be enough for both of us, I am sure of it, in fact.

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498a

Arles
29 May 1888

Vincent A. H. Koning Durand Ruel I wish you could see the colour here.

Tuta teksto

View of Arles from a Hill: F 1452, JH 1437
501a

Arles
c. 17 June 1888

Vincent John Russell Boccaccio, Monticelli, Zola, Manet, Gauguin, Monet, McKnight, Monticelli, Cimabue Tuta teksto Sower, The: F 422, JH 1470; Bridge at Trinquetaille, The: F 426, JH 1468; Head of a Girl: F 1507a, JH 1466
501b

Belle-Ile-en-Mer
22 July 1888

John Russell Vincent Gauguin, Bernard, Rodin, Monet Tuta teksto ---
544a

Arles
3 October 1888

Vincent Paul Gauguin Guillaumin, Pissarro, Seurat, Boch, Bernard, Botticelli, Giotto, Petrarch, Dante, Boccaccio, Laval, Daumier Now, hope is vaguely beckoning on the horizon again, that flickering hope which used sometimes to console my solitary life.
I consider my views of art excessively run of the mill compared with yours.

Tuta teksto

Green Vineyard, The: F 475, JH 1595; Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Paul Gauguin): F 476, JH 1581
553b

Arles
2 October 1888

Vincent Eugène Boch Jean Baptiste Denis, Joseph Quintet, Gauguin, Milliet As a matter of fact it was in the Borinage that I first started to work from nature. But of course I destroyed it all a long time ago.

Tuta teksto

Portrait of Eugene Boch: F 462, JH 1574; Night Cafe in the Place Lamartine in Arles, The: F 463, JH 1575; Vincent's House in Arles (The Yellow House): F 464, JH 1589; Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night, The: F 467, JH 1580; Public Park with Weeping Willow: The Poet's Garden I: F 468, JH 1578; Lane in the Public Garden at Arles, A: F 470, JH 1582; Portrait of Milliet, Second Lieutenant of the Zouaves: F 473, JH 1588; Starry Night over the Rhone: F 474, JH 1592; Green Vineyard, The: F 475, JH 1595; Ploughed Field: F 574, JH 1586
569a

Arles
7 January 1889

Vincent His mother and sister Jet Mauve But at the same time I can inform you that I have completely recovered, and am at work again, and everything is normal.

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571a

Arles
22 or 23 January 1889

Vincent A. H. Koning Van Eeden, Breitner Whether I really sang a lullaby in colours is something I leave to the critics, particularly to the aforesaid ones.

Tuta teksto

Still Life: Vase with Fourteen Sunflowers: F 454, JH 1562; Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers: F 456, JH 1561; Still Life: Vase with Fourteen Sunflowers: F 458, JH 1667; Portrait of Doctor Felix Rey: F 500, JH 1659; La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin): F 508, JH 1671
572a

Arles
c. 22 January 1889

Vincent Paul Gauguin Roulin, Berlioz, Wagner, Jeannin, Quost In my mental or nervous fever, or madness – I am not too sure how to put it or what to call it – my thoughts sailed over many seas.

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581a

Arles
26 March 1889

Paul Signac Theo van Gogh Rey [Vincent] took me along to see his pictures, many of which are very good, and all of which are very curious.

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583a

Cassis
4 April 1889

Paul Signac Vincent van Gogh --- Tuta teksto ---
583b

Arles
circa 10 April 1889

Vincent Paul Signac --- Since your visit my head has just about returned to its normal state, and for the time being I desire nothing better than that this will last.

But at times it is not easy for me to take up living again, for there remain inner seizures of despair of a pretty large caliber.

Tuta teksto

Orchard in Bloom with View of Arles: JH 1684; View of Arles with Trees in Blossom: F 515, JH 1683; La Crau with Peach Trees in Blossom: F 514, JH 1681
598

Saint-Rémy
2 July 1889

Vincent Mother Cor, Gauguin, Transvaal And yet apples do not fall far away from the tree, nor will stinging nettles grow from their pips. Beyond that I know nothing.

Tuta teksto

Red Vineyard, The: F 495, JH 1626
602a

Saint-Rémy
3 or 4 September 1889

Dr. Peyron Theo van Gogh --- [Vincent's] thoughts of suicide have disappeared, only disturbing dreams remain.

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606

Saint-Rémy
19 September 1889

Vincent Mother Cor, Wil Thus it is a great consolation for me that the work is progressing instead of declining, and that I do it with absolute calmness and that in this respect my thoughts are quite clear and conscious.

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612

Saint-Rémy
c. 20-22 September 1889

Vincent Mother Cor, Gauguin, De Haan, Toon, Piet Prins And those high prices one hears about, paid for work of painters who are dead and who were never paid so much while they were alive, it is a kind of tulip trade, under which the living painters suffer rather than gain any benefit. And it will also disappear like the tulip trade.

Tuta teksto

Vincent's Bedroom in Arles: F 483, JH 1793; Red Vineyard, The: F 495, JH 1626; Self-Portrait: F 525, JH 1665; Wheat Field behind Saint-Paul Hospital with a Reaper: F 619, JH 1792; Enclosed Field with Ploughman: F 625, JH 1768; Portrait of a Patient in Saint-Paul Hospital: F 703, JH 1832; Olive Trees: F 711, JH 1791; Wheat Field with Cypresses: F 743, JH 1790
614a

Auvers-sur-Oise
25 May 1890

Vincent J.J. Isaäcson Delacroix, Puvis de Chavannes, Monet, Renoir, Daubigny, Cesar de Cock, Millet, Jules Breton, Rembrandt, Chavannes, Raphael, Michelangelo, da Vinci, Giotto The effect of daylight, of the sky, makes it possible to extract an infinity of subjects from the olive tree.

Tuta teksto

Still Life: Vase with Irises against a Yellow Background: F 678, JH 1977; Still Life: Vase with Irises: F 680, JH 1978; Still Life: Vase with Roses: F 681, JH 1976
616

Saint-Rémy
c. 10 December 1889

Vincent Mother Wil, Aunt Mina . . . and be sure that I think of you often, here where I spend my days more withdrawn into myself than now and then seems to me desirable.

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619

Saint-Rémy
c. 20 December 1889

Vincent Mother Schelfout, Van de Sande Bakhuysen, Jules Bakhuysen A French writer says that all painters are more or less crazy, and though quite a lot can be said against this, it is certain that one gets too distrait in it.

Tuta teksto

Pine Trees against a Red Sky with Setting Sun: F 652, JH 1843; Olive Picking: F 655, JH 1869; Les Peiroulets Ravine: F 661, JH 1871
622a

Saint-Rémy
30 or 31 December 1889

Vincent Mr. and Mrs. Ginoux --- Personally I believe that the adversities one meets with in the ordinary course of life do us as much good as harm.
Diseases exist to remind us that we are not made of wood, and it seems to me this is the bright side of it all.

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623a

Saint-Rémy
c. 31 January 1890

Vincent John Russell Millet, Gauguin, De Haan, the Vingtistes, MacKnight Though it is not pleasant to be ill, yet I have no right to complain, for it seems to me that nature sees to it that disease is a means of putting us on our legs again and of healing us, rather than an absolute evil.

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624

Saint-Rémy
31 January 1890

Vincent Johanna van Gogh-Bonger Gauguin, Wil, Mother Forgive me if I warn you that in my opinion recovery takes a long time and is no easier than being ill.

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626a

Saint-Rémy
10 or 11 February 1890

Vincent Albert Aurier Monticelli, Cythère by Watteau, M. Lauzet, Delacroix, Diaz, Ziem, Decameron, Boccaccio, Henri Leys, Gauguin, Rembrandt's Portrait of a Man at the Galerie Lacaze, the Vingtistes, Quost, Jeannin, Meissonier, Mauve, Troyon I admire [your article] very much as a work of art in itself, it seems to me that you paint with words; in fact, I encounter my canvases anew in your article, but better than they are in reality, richer, more meaningful.

Tuta teksto

Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers: F 456, JH 1561; Still Life: Vase with Fourteen Sunflowers: F 458, JH 1667; Paul Gauguin's Armchair: F 499, JH 1636; Cypresses with Two Female Figures: F 620, JH 1748
626b

Saint-Rémy
Early February 1890

Vincent Mr. Ginoux Gauguin . . . there have been articles on my pictures published simultaneously in Belgium and in Paris, where I had them exhibited, in which they speak far better of them than I myself could have wished.

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627

Saint-Rémy
c. 20 February 1890

Vincent Mother Isaäcson Tuta teksto Red Vineyard, The: F 495, JH 1626; Blossoming Almond Tree: F 671, JH 1891
629a

Saint-Rémy
30 April 1890

Vincent Mother and sister Wilhelmina (Wil) --- . . . I am longing to get away from here; what one has to endure here is hardly bearable.

. . . this is how things nearly always go in a painter's life: success is about the worst thing that can happen.

Tuta teksto

Cottages: Reminiscence of the North: F 673, JH 1919; Thatched Cottages in the Sunshine: Reminiscence of the North: F 674, JH 1920; Cottages and Cypresses: Reminiscence of the North: F 675, JH 1921; Pine Trees and Dandelions in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital: F 676, JH 1970; Two Peasant Women Digging in Field with Snow: F 695, JH 1923
634a

Saint-Rémy
11 or 12 May 1890

Vincent Mr. Ginoux Roulin family I vigorously shake your hands in thought, as well as the hands of the neighbors, and believe me when I say that over there I shall often think of you all, for what Mrs. Ginoux said is true – if you are friends, you are friends for a long time.

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639

Auvers-sur-Oise
25 May 1890

Vincent Mother Peyron, Cor, Gachet, Wil . . . it seems to me, a favourable effect in so far as the symptoms of the disease, which are a sort of thermometer, have quite disappeared these days – though, as I have learned, one must not count too much on this.

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640a

Auvers-sur-Oise
c. 12 June 1890

Vincent Mr. and Mrs. Ginoux --- The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers – as in a looking glass, darkly – one's absent friends.

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641a

Auvers-sur-Oise
c. 12 June 1890

Vincent Mother Gachet That is why I at times try my very hardest, although it is this very hard work that turns out to be the least understood, and though for me it is the only link between the past and the present.

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643

Auvers-sur-Oise
c. 17 June 1890

Vincent Paul Gauguin Gachet, Lauzet, Monticelli, De Haan Tuta teksto L'Arlesienne (Madame Ginoux): F 543, JH 1895; Road with Cypress and Star: F 683, JH 1982; Portrait of Doctor Gachet: F 753, JH 2007; Ears of Wheat: F 767, JH 2034
650

Auvers-sur-Oise
circa 10 July 1890

Vincent Mother and sister Wilhelmina (Wil) --- For the present I am feeling much calmer than last year . . . .

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B22

Arles
17 October 1888

Vincent Paul Gauguin --- There is still present in my mind the emotion produced by my own long journey from Paris to Arles last winter. How I peered out to see whether it was like Japan yet! Childish, wasn't it?

Tuta teksto

Vincent's Bedroom in Arles: F 482, JH 1608; Vincent's Bedroom: JH 1610
T1a

Paris
10 July 1887

Theo Mrs. Van Stockum-Haanebeek Zola's Une Page d'amour, Guy de Maupassant, Loti's Pécheur d'Islande Tuta teksto ---
T3a

Paris
13 November 1888

Theo Paul Gauguin Degas Tuta teksto ---
W10

Arles
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Joseph Roulin Wilhelmina (Wil) --- Please set your mind quite at ease as to the health of my good friend Vincent . . .

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W12

Saint-Rémy
16 June 1889

Vincent Wilhelmina (Wil) --- Though it is with an obstinate ingratitude that I feel my health gradually returning, the fact is that I am quite well; but, as I told you, my inclination to take up the joys of life again can hardly be called strong.

Tuta teksto

Mountainous Landscape behind Saint-Paul Hospital: F 611, JH 1723; Olive Trees with the Alpilles in the Background: F 712, JH 1740; Green Wheat Field with Cypress: F 719, JH 1725
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Arles
26 December 1888

Joseph Roulin Theo van Gogh --- I have been to see your brother Vincent. I promised to tell you what I thought of him. I am sorry to tell you that I think he is lost.

Tuta teksto

Picture of Roulin's letter

(Text and graphic courtesy of Bob Harrison).

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Brittany
c. 20 November 1889

Paul Gauguin Theo van Gogh De Haan, Bernard, Degas, Schuffenecker, Tonkin, Manet It is good to meticulously touch up the model from nature, but be careful lest you smell its odour.

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The Complete Letters: From Vincent van Gogh to Emile Bernard

Letter

Keywords

Excerpt / Tuta teksto

Link to Painting(s) Mentioned in Letter

B1

Paris
Fall, 1887

Tolstoi's Russian Legends, Delacroix, Guillaumin, Signac, Fantin-Latour . . . I persist in believing that you will discover that in the studios one not only does not learn much about painting, but not even much good about the art of living . . . .

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B2

Arles
18 March 1888

--- If the Japanese are not working in their country it is certain that their art continues in France.

Tuta teksto

Langlois Bridge at Arles with Women Washing, The: F 397, JH 1368; Two Lovers (Fragment): F 544, JH 1369
B3

Arles
9 April 1888

Aix, Marseilles, Tangier A starry sky, for instance – look, that is something I should like to try to do, just as in the daytime I am going to try to paint a green meadow spangled with dandelions.

Tuta teksto

Orchard in Blossom, Bordered by Cypresses: F 554, JH 1388
B4

Arles
c. 21 April 1888

Dürer, Cranach, Van Eyck, Tartarin de Tarascon There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing – on the contrary, isn't it true that saying a thing well is as interesting and as difficult as painting it?

Tuta teksto

Orchard in Blossom: F 406, JH 1399
B5

Arles
c. 20 May 1888

Gauguin . . . I have rented a house, painted yellow outside, whitewashed within, in the full sun (four rooms).

Tuta teksto

Still Life: Bottle, Lemons and Oranges: F 384, JH 1425; Farmhouse in a Wheat Field: F 408, JH 1417; View of Arles with Irises in the Foreground: F 409, JH 1416; Still Life: Blue Enamel Coffeepot, Earthenware and Fruit: F 410, JH 1426; Lane near Arles, A: F 567, JH 1419
B6

Arles
6-11 June 1888

Daudet's Tartarin, Cimabue, Giotto, Fromentin, Gerome Tuta teksto ---
B7

Arles
c. 18 June 1888

Gauguin, Millet, Mauve, Israëls, Anquetin, J. K. Huysman's 'En ménage', Milliet, Baudelaire, Daudet's Nabab, Loti's Madame Chrysanthème, Monet The symbol of St. Luke, the patron saint of painters, is, as you know, an ox. So you just be patient as an ox if you want to work in the artistic field. Still, bulls are lucky not to have to work at that foul business of painting.

Tuta teksto

Sower, The: F 422, JH 1470; Sunset: Wheat Fields near Arles: F 465, JH 1473
B8

Arles
23 June 1888

Moses, St. Luke, Christ, St. Paul, Delacroix, Rembrandt, Millet, Botticelli, Van Eyck, Cranach, Velásquez, Benjamin Constant, Puvis, Monet, Luther, Dürer, Holbein, Louis XIV, Potter Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the futility of death, the necessity and purpose of serenity and devotion. He lived serenely, as an artist greater than all other artists, scorning marble and clay and paint, working in the living flesh.
Yet our own life is a modest one indeed, our life as painters, languishing under the back-breaking yoke of the problems of a calling that is almost too hard to practise on this ungrateful planet, where 'love of art drives out true love'.

Tuta teksto

Zouave (Half Length), The: F 423, JH 1486; Seated Zouave, The: F 424, JH 1488; Zouave Sitting, Whole Figure: F 1443, JH 1485
B9

Arles
24 June 1888

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B10

Arles
15 July 1888

Crivelli, Virelli, Breton, Gauguin And I am still going there, over and over again. All right! I have done two drawings of [la Crau] – of that flat landscape, where there was nothing but . . . infinity – eternity.

Tuta teksto

La Crau Seen from Montmajour: F 1420, JH 1501; Landscape near Montmajour with Train: F 1424, JH 1502; Newly Mowed Lawn with Weeping Tree: F 1450, JH 1509
B11

Arles
c. 17 July 1888

Cézanne, Monticelli, Rembrandt, Paulus Potter, Ruysdael Moreover, the material problems of the painter's life make it desirable that painters should collaborate and unite (much as they did in the days of the Guilds of St. Luke).

Tuta teksto

Haystacks near a Farm: F 1426, JH 1514; Fishing Boats at Sea: F 1430, JH 1505; Street in Saintes-Maries: F 1435, JH 1506; Sower with Setting Sun: F 1442, JH 1508; Canal with Women Washing: F 1444, JH 1507; Wheat Field: F 1481, JH 1515; Wheat Field with Sheaves: F 1488, JH 1517; Wheat Field with Sheaves and Arles in the Background: F 1491, JH 1516; Rocks with Tree: F 1554, JH 1518
B12

Arles
c. 23 July 1888

Rembrandt, Baudelaire, Millet, Courbet, Degas, Vermeer, Velasquez, Charles Blanc, Thoré, Fromentin, Socrates, Mohammed, Da Vinci, Delacroix I am showing you a painter who dreams and paints from imagination, and I began by contending that the character of the Dutch painters is such that they do not invent anything, that they have neither imagination nor fantasy.

Tuta teksto

La Mousmé, Sitting: F 431, JH 1519
B13

Arles
c. 25 July 1888

Velasquez, Goya, Rembrandt, Baudelaire, Ostade, Terborch, Delacroix, Zola, Balzac, Silvestre, Daumier, Millet, Frans Hals, Dante, Michelangelo, Raphael, Vermeer of Delft, Nicholaes Maes, Pieter de Hooch, Bol, Potter, Ruysdael, Fabritius, Musset It is possible that these great geniuses are only madmen, and that one must be mad oneself to have boundless faith in them and a boundless admiration for them. If this is true, I should prefer my insanity to the sanity of the others.

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B14

Arles
c. 4 August 1888

Gauguin, Rembrandt, Vermeer of Delft, Giotto, Daumier, Cimabue, Holbein, Van Dyck, Puvis [de Chavannes], de Goncourt, Degas, Reubens, Courbet, Balzac, Delacroix, Tanguy, Cézanne Vermeer of Delft, found this extremely solid technique which has never been surpassed, which at present… we are burning .. to find.

Tuta teksto

Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin: F 432, JH 1522; Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin: F 433, JH 1524
B15

Arles
c. 18 August 1888

Socrates, Gauguin, Giotto, Rembrandt Oh! that beautiful midsummer sun here. It beats down on one's head, and I haven't the slightest doubt that it makes one crazy. But as I was so to begin with, I only enjoy it.

Tuta teksto

Potato Eaters, The: F 82, JH 764; Portrait of Patience Escalier, Shepherd in Provence: F 443, JH 1548; Thistles: F 447, JH 1550; Two Thistles: F 447a, JH 1551; Quay with Men Unloading Sand Barges: F 449, JH 1558
B16

Arles
c. 18 September 1888

Delacroix, Monticelli, Gérôme, Fromentin Tuta teksto Night Cafe in the Place Lamartine in Arles, The: F 463, JH 1575; Portrait of Milliet, Second Lieutenant of the Zouaves: F 473, JH 1588
B17

Arles
c. 28 September 1888

Gauguin, Africa Art is long and life is short, and we must be patient, while trying to sell our lives dearly.
To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe and drink one's coffee in peace.

Tuta teksto

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B18

Arles
6 October 1888

Gauguin, Laval, Moret Painting a picture is as difficult as finding a large or a small diamond.

Tuta teksto

Sunny Lawn in a Public Park: F 428, JH 1499; Thistles: F 447, JH 1550; Quay with Men Unloading Sand Barges: F 449, JH 1558; Pair of Shoes, A: F 461, JH 1569; Night Cafe in the Place Lamartine in Arles, The: F 463, JH 1575; Vincent's House in Arles (The Yellow House): F 464, JH 1589; Public Park with Weeping Willow: The Poet's Garden I: F 468, JH 1578; Starry Night over the Rhone: F 474, JH 1592; Green Vineyard, The: F 475, JH 1595; Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Paul Gauguin): F 476, JH 1581; Ploughed Field: F 574, JH 1586; Newly Mowed Lawn with Weeping Tree: F 1450, JH 1509
B19

Arles
7 October 1888

Gauguin, Laval, Moret I strongly urge you to study portrait painting, do as many portraits as you can and don't flag. We must win the public over later on by means of the portrait; in my opinion it is the thing of the future.

Tuta teksto

Quay with Men Unloading Sand Barges: F 449, JH 1558; Night Cafe in the Place Lamartine in Arles, The: F 463, JH 1575; Brothel, The: F 478, JH 1599; Old Mill, The: F 550, JH 1577
B19a

Arles
c. 2 November 1888

Le rêve, Zola, Milliet As for me, with my presentiment of a new world, I firmly believe in the possibility of an immense renaissance of art.

Tuta teksto

Night Cafe in the Place Lamartine in Arles, The: F 463, JH 1575; Les Alyscamps: Falling Autumn Leaves: F 486, JH 1620; Les Alyscamps: F 487, JH 1621; Les Alyscamps: F 568, JH 1622
B20

Saint-Rémy
c. 8 October 1889

Gauguin, Corot, Garnier, Violet le Duc, Millet . . . for the great thing is to give the sun and the blue sky their full force and brilliance, and the scorched – and often melancholy – fields their delicate aroma of thyme.

Tuta teksto

Entrance to a Quarry near Saint-Remy: F 635, JH 1767; Enclosed Wheat Field with Peasant: F 641, JH 1795; Les Peiroulets Ravine: F 662, JH 1804
B21

Saint-Rémy
c. 20 November 1889

Millet, Baudelaire, Daumier, Gauguin, Giotto, Corot, Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Delacroix, Anquetin My ambition reaches no further than a few clods of earth, sprouting wheat, an olive grove, a cypress – the last, for instance, far from easy to do.

Tuta teksto

Novel Reader, The: F 497, JH 1632; La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin): F 508, JH 1671; Olive Grove: Orange Sky: F 586, JH 1854; Olive Grove with Picking Figures: F 587, JH 1853; Wheat Field with Reaper and Sun: F 617, JH 1753; Wheat Fields with Reaper at Sunrise: F 618, JH 1773; Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital, The: F 660, JH 1849; Olive Grove: F 707, JH 1857; Olive Grove: Pale Blue Sky: F 708, JH 1855; Olive Trees with Yellow Sky and Sun: F 710, JH 1856; Enclosed Field with Rising Sun: F 737, JH 1862


The Complete Letters: From Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard

Letter

Keywords

Excerpt / Tuta teksto

Link to Painting(s) Mentioned in Letter

R1

Etten
12 October 1881

Gavarni, Thackeray, Dickens, Balzac, Mauve, Karl Robert's Le fusain, De Leur At present I am working a good deal with charcoal and black crayon, and I have also tried sepia and watercolour. Well, I do not venture to say that you will see progress in my drawings, but most certainly you will see a change.

Tuta teksto

Pollard Willow: F 995, JH 56
R2

Etten
15 October 1881

Mauve, Baudry, Lefebvre, Henner, Mesdag's "Panorama", De Bock, Destrée, Tom Hood, Jules Breton, Feven-Perrin, Millet, Ulysse Butin, Mauve, Artz, Israëls, Lantsheer, Arti The more we know of what is happening abroad, the better, but we must never forget that we have our roots in the Dutch soil.

Tuta teksto

Sower with Hand in Sack: F 857, JH 32; Peasant Sitting by the Fireplace ("Worn Out"): F 863, JH 34; Peasant Sitting by the Fireplace ("Worn Out"): F 864, JH 51
R3

Etten
2 November 1881

Dr. Kam The fact that my being conscious of my own fallibility will keep me from making many mistakes will certainly not prevent my making a great many mistakes after all.

Tuta teksto

Boy Cutting Grass with a Sickle: F 851, JH 61; Farmer Sitting at the Fireside, Reading: F 897, JH 63; Woman Sitting at the Fireside: F 1216, JH 64
R4

Etten
12 November 1881

Dame Nature, Dame Reality, Nucingen, Michelet My dear fellow, never be resigned, and never get disappointed, this is the best advice I can give you . . . .

Tuta teksto

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R5

Etten
21 November 1881

Ten Cate Tuta teksto ---
R6

Etten
23 November 1881

--- The man who damn well refuses to love what he loves dooms himself.

Tuta teksto

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R7

The Hague
30 December 1881

Stallaert, Severdonk Of course my letters don't pretend to be invariably right, always to explain things correctly – oh no, I am often mistaken.

Tuta teksto

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R8

The Hague
28 May 1882

Mrs. Edwards, Green, Rochussen, Dürer, Holbein, Du Maurier, Fred Walker, Mauve, Millais, Dickens, Eliot, Currer Bell, Balzac, Herkomer, Fildes, Israëls, Tersteeg, Millet, Sensier When the earth is not ploughed, you can get no harvest from it. [Sien] has been ploughed – and so I find more in her than in a crowd of unploughed ones.

Tuta teksto

Nursery on Schenkweg: F 930, JH 138; Fish-Drying Barn, Seen From a Height: F 938, JH 152; Carpenter's Yard and Laundry: F 939, JH 150; Sien's Mother's House, Closer View: F 942, JH 147
R9

The Hague
4 or 5 June 1882

De Groux Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength; and then, when one devotes all one's powers to it, to be looked upon as a kind of unpractical fellow and all kinds of other things – yes, that leaves a bitter taste in one's mouth.

Oh well, we must try to carry on.

Tuta teksto

Nursery on Schenkweg: F 923, JH 125; Nursery on Schenkweg: F 930, JH 138; Fish-Drying Barn, Seen From a Height: F 938, JH 152; Carpenter's Yard and Laundry: F 939, JH 150; Sien's Mother's House: F 941, JH 146; Sien's Mother's House, Closer View: F 942, JH 147; Fish-Drying Barn: F 946a, JH 151
R10

The Hague
c. 28 June 1882

De Groux It is very pleasant here in this hospital; I am lying in a ward with ten beds, but, as I had to keep quiet, I have not been able to draw until today, and even now it is only a very faint and feeble start; I cannot do what I want and penetrate to the core of things.

Tuta teksto

Fish-Drying Barn, Seen From a Height: F 938, JH 152; Fish-Drying Barn: F 940, JH 154; Fish-Drying Barn: F 946a, JH 151
R11

The Hague
13 August 1882

Mauve, ter Meulen, Heike, Neuhuys, Duchâtel, Weissenbruch, Israëls, Mesdag, Willem Maris, Jaap Maris, Vermeer, Daubigny, Corot, Jules Dupré, Jules Breton, Courbet, Diaz, Jacque, Th. Rousseau, Millet Painting is so sympathetic to me that it will be very difficult for me not to go on painting forever.

Tuta teksto

Beach at Scheveningen in Calm Weather: F 2, JH 173; Dunes: F 2a, JH 176
R12

The Hague
c. 12-14 September 1882

McQuoid, Renouard, Lançon, Doré, Morin, Gavarni, Du Maurier, Ch. Keene, Howard Pyle, Hopkins, Herkomer, Frank Hol I know that there are so many beautiful things to do which have hardly, if ever, been painted by others.

Tuta teksto

Bench with Four Persons (and Baby): F 951, JH 197
R13

The Hague
18-19 September 1882

Vautier, Knaus, Jundt, Georg Saal, Van Muyden, Brion, Anker, Th. Schuler, Erckmann-Chatrian, Auerbach, Lançon, Goya, Fortuny, Morelli, Tapero, Heilbuth, Zues, Rochussen, Mauve, Israëls, Thomas Faed, Pinwell, Morris, Small, Gilbert, Dickens, Zola, Shakespeare, Menzel, Whistler, Régamey, Heilbuth, Marchetti, Jacquet, Wyllie, Boughton, Millet, Robinson Crusoe, Karl Robert's Le fusain, Marchal, Balzac, Gavarni, Eliot, Doré, Daumier, Jacque, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Morin, Victor Hugo, Bohème, Lynen Well, speaking for myself – provided I remain active and productive too – as long as I may have my daily bread, I shall not mind being relatively poor all my life.

Tuta teksto

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R14

The Hague
22 or 23 September 1882

Renouard, Caton Woodville, Monthard As for watercolours, I have started several, but I have not been as successful with them as I should wish, although I enjoy doing them more than formerly.

Tuta teksto

Orphan Man with Long Overcoat and Umbrella, Seen from the Back: F 968, JH 213
R15

The Hague
c. 29 October 1882

Harper's Weekly, Howard Pyle, Harper, Rogers, Abbey, Alexander, Caton Woodville, Overend, Nash, Dodd, Gregory, Watson, Stamland, Smythe, Hennessy, Emslie, Graphic, London News, Small, British Workman and the Cottage and Artisan, Shakespeare, Menzel, Knaus, Birket Forster, Read, Oliver Twist, J. Mahoney, Story of a Feather, Du Maurier, Certain Lectures, Ch. Keene, Félicien Rops, De Groux How beautiful it is out-of-doors; sometimes I long for a country where it is always autumn, but then we should not have snow and apple blossoms, and no wheat and fields of stubble.

Tuta teksto

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R16

The Hague
c. 31 October 1882

Arti, Punch, Thomas a Kempis, Erckmann-Chatrian, Tenniel, Holbein, Robinson, Caldecott, Dagnan, Montbard, Emslie, Gavarni, "Bénédicité" by De Groux, the "Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci, Harry Furniss, Daumier, Andersen's Fairy Tales One must have a warm sympathy with human beings, and go on having it, or the drawings will remain cold and insipid.
I am trying to push on energetically, and yet I am looked down upon, and considered a nonentity, by fellows who are certainly working less hard than I am – which by the way leaves me pretty cold – and nobody here pays the slightest attention to my work.

Tuta teksto

Women Miners: F 994, JH 253
R17

The Hague
1 November 1882

Herkomer, Small, Ridley, Swain, Chr. Green, Caton Woodville, Howard Pyle, Dickens, Chuzzlewit, Israëls, Mauve, Maris, Neuhuys, Weissenbruch, De Groux And believe me – whoever has seen the prominent artists of today ten years ago, both as men and as artists, when all of them were much poorer – they have made an enormous amount of money these last ten years – regrets those days ten years ago.

Tuta teksto

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R18

The Hague
26 November 1882

Van der Weele, Frank Hol Tuta teksto Peasant Sitting by the Fireplace ("Worn Out"): F 864, JH 51; Orphan Man with Top Hat, Drinking Coffee: F 996a, JH 264; Old Man with his Head in his Hands: F 997, JH 267; Old Man with his Head in his Hands, Half-Figure: F 998, JH 269; "Sorrow": F 1655, JH 259; Digger: F 1656, JH 262; Orphan Man with Top Hat, Drinking Coffee: F 1657, JH 266; Old Man with his Head in his Hands ("At Eternity's Gate"): F 1662, JH 268; Orphan Man with Top Hat, Drinking Coffee: F 1682, JH 263
R19

The Hague
c. 16 November 1882

Herkomer, Boughton, Renouard . . . I cannot agree with what you say about the way the public looks at things, namely being struck by faulty drawing before seeing the character.

Tuta teksto

Orphan Man: F 1658, JH 256
R20

The Hague
4 February 1883

De Groux, Lançon, Herkomer, Lhermitte, Millet, Jules Breton, Daumier, Gregory, Boks, Diaz, Breitner, Frank Hol, Fred. Walker, Fildes It does not surprise me very much that I had my share of botheration with former friends who did not want to see me any longer. But fortunately this was not the case with my best friend – I mean my brother – for he and I are far more friends than brothers, and he is a man who can understand such things – more than that, who has helped and is still helping many unfortunates.

Tuta teksto

Workman Sitting on a Basket, Cutting Bread: F 1663, JH 272
R21

The Hague
c. 7 February 1883

Frank Hol, Jacque, Daumier, Oberländer, Edmond Morin, John Lewis Brown, Doré, Valerio, Renouard, Harper's Christmas Papers, Swain, Caldecott, Dagnan, Montbard, Heilbuth, Washington Irving, Menzel, De Groux, Lhermitte, Paterson, Hugo, Dickens's The Haunted Man The changes in my household, instead of causing me to work less, have caused me to work more; I worked even with a sort of fury, but a quiet fury, if you will allow me to use the expression.

Tuta teksto

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R22

The Hague
c. 15 January 1883

Graphic, Percy Macquoid, Gavarni's La Mascarade Humaine Tuta teksto ---
R23

The Hague
c. 20 January 1883

Ridley, Whistler, Seymour Haden, Boyd Houghton, Herkomer, Pinwell, Fred. Walker, Ch. Green, Buckmann, Brentall, Small, H. Woods, Macbeth, Gregory, Frank Hol, Du Maurier There is something stimulating and invigorating like old wine about those striking, powerful, virile drawings [in the Graphic].

Tuta teksto

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R24

The Hague
c. 25-30 January 1883

(Vincent cites dozens of artists and their works found in the volumes of The Graphic that he had recently purchased). Oh, Rappard – in many respect it's like this – much that has great value nowadays is ignored and looked down upon as worthless rubbish, garbage, wastepaper.

Tuta teksto

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R25

The Hague
c. 9 February 1883

Heilbuth, Lucas, Andersen, Marchetti, Gussow, Ed. Frère, Vautier, Herkomer, Pinwell, Walker I used to think years ago that most artists had the same kinds of feelings and ideas about art as you and I, but in some sense this is not true at all.

Tuta teksto

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R26

The Hague
c. 12 February 1883

Graphic, Régamey, Hopkins, Percy Macquoid, Jules Férat, Heilbuth, Dodd, Green, Barnes, Corot Tuta teksto ---
R27

The Hague
c. 18-20 February 1883

Graphic, Small, Herkomer, Green, Frank Hol, Fritz Reuter, Bräsig, Havermann, Knaus, Vautier, Houghton, du Maurier, Miss Edw. Edwards, J. D. Linton Tuta teksto ---
R28

The Hague
c. 22-29 February 1883

(Vincent cites dozens of artists and their works found in the volumes of The Graphic that he had recently purchased). I hope you do not object to my considering you my friend, and I suppose that you on your part think of me in the same way.
How beautiful the mud is, and the withering grass!

Tuta teksto

State Lottery Office, The: F 970, JH 222
R29

The Hague
c. 27 February 1883

Herkomer, Van der Weele, Régamey, Menzel, Renouard, Frère, Heilbuth, Fildes's "Charles Dickens Empty Chair", Daziel, Green, Giacomelli, Bodmer Tuta teksto ---
R30

The Hague
c. 5 March 1883

Smulders, Album des Vosges, Lançon, Renouard, F. Régamey, Guillaume Régamey, Boulanger, Walker, Boetzel, Lavieille, Swain, Moller, Feyen-Perrin, Millet, De Bock, Ruysdael, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Carlyle, Goethe, Barnard, Dickens, Fildes' "Empty chair", John Leech, Cruikshank, Frank Hol There is no writer, in my opinion, who is so much a painter and a black-and-white artist as Dickens. His figures are resurrections.

Tuta teksto

Baby Crawling: F 872, JH 334; Public Soup Kitchen, The: F 1020a, JH 330
R31

The Hague
21-28 March 1883

Van der Weele, Mauve, Herkomer, Frank Hol, Lançon, Small Tuta teksto ---
R32

The Hague
c. 21 March 1883

Herkomer, Boyd Houghton, Van der Weele . . . let's encourage each other to do it, and let's inspire each other as much as we can to work, on, not in the manner the dealers want us to, but with virile strength, truth, good faith and honesty.

Tuta teksto

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R33

The Hague
c. 2-4 April 1883

Thomas, Gilbert, Oberlander, Smulders You make a drawing, either with lead pencil or with charcoal. Put as much vigour into it as you can, but without worrying about the weakness or inadequacy of the effect.

Tuta teksto

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R34

The Hague
c. 8 May 1883

Israëls, Mauve, Maris, Howard Pyle, Terborch, Nicolaas Keyzer, King, Dumas, Van der Weele I cannot conceal the fact that, speaking for myself, I do not see the future very clearly, and that I deem it doubtful whether I shall be able to carry out what I intend to do.
I believe that the more one loves, the more one will act; for love that is only a feeling I would never recognize as love.

Tuta teksto

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R35

The Hague
c. 21 May 1883

Dickens, Hugo, Zola, Erckmann-Chatrian's Histoire d'un Paysan, Robe, Van der Weele, Lhermitte, Perret, Bastien Lepage, Balzac, Michelet Tuta teksto ---
R36

The Hague
c. 25 May 1883

Harper's Weekly, Reinhardt, Régamey, Les Misérables, A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens, Howard Pyle, Caldecott The French Revolution is the very greatest modern event, and everything in our own time hinges on it too.

Tuta teksto

Digger: F 906, JH 260; Man Carrying Peat: F 964, JH 273; Orphan Man with Top Hat and Hands Crossed: F 975, JH 235; Fisherman with Sou'wester, Head: F 1014, JH 310; Scheveningen Woman with Wheelbarrow: F 1021, JH 362; Peat Diggers in the Dunes: F 1031, JH 363; Digger: F 1656, JH 262
R37

The Hague
c. 14-15 June 1883

Millet, Albrecht Dürer, Leys, De Groux, Daumier, Israëls, Mauve, Maris, Van der Weele, Caldecott, Tersteeg, Faber, Boughton, Abbey, Howard Pyle, Erckmann-Chatrian, Schüler, Green, Harper's, Zola, Manet, Fritz Reuter's Dried Herbs, Smedley What you write about feeling that you are now on a road, and not on little by-paths and crossroads, is very true, in my opinion. I have a similar feeling myself, because during the past year I have been concentrating on figures even more than I used to.

Tuta teksto

Orphan Man in Sunday Clothes with Eye Bandage, Head: F 1003, JH 285; Man with Pipe and Eye Bandage, Head: F 1004, JH 289; Sand Diggers in Dekkersduin near The Hague: F 1029, JH 366; Peat Diggers in the Dunes: F 1031, JH 363
R38

The Hague
c. 2 July 1883

Zola, Hugo, Manet, Erckmann-Chatrian, Claude Lantier, Balzac, Taine, Dickens, Carlyle, Boughton, Abbey, Millet, Green, Braemar, Ridley, A. Hunt, Barnard, Hopkins, Birken Forster, Gavarni, Régamey, Howard Pyle, Read, Rembrandt, Van Beyeren, Volton, Reinhardt, Graphic, London News, Caldecott, Caton Woodville Tuta teksto Potato Grubbers, Four Figures: F 1034, JH 372; Sower: F 1035, JH 374; Weed Burner, Sitting on a Wheelbarrow with his Wife: F 1035a, JH 375
R39

Nuenen
c. 18-20 January 1884

--- My mother had a pretty serious accident getting off the train . . . .

Tuta teksto

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R40

Nuenen
25 February 1884

O'Kelly, Emslie, Jules Breton, François, Coppée I have mostly been painting these past weeks – those weavers – it was rather a laborious job.

Tuta teksto

Old Tower at Nuenen with a Ploughman, The: F 34, JH 459; Weaver Facing Right: F 1108, JH 451; Weaver Facing Right: F 1121, JH 453; Weaver Facing Right (Half-Figure): F 1122, JH 454; Weaver Facing Left: F 1123, JH 455
R41

Nuenen
c. 1 March 1884

Coppée, Hippolyte Boulanger, De Lesseps I am asked quite often, "Why do others sell and you don't?" I answer that I certainly hope to sell in the course of time, but that I think I shall be able to influence it most effectively by working steadily on, and that at the present moment making desperate "efforts" to force the work I am doing now upon the public would be pretty useless – and consequently that the problem leaves me rather cold, as I am concentrating on getting on.

Tuta teksto

Old Tower at Nuenen with a Ploughman, The: F 34, JH 459; Parsonage Garden: F 1133, JH 485
R42

Nuenen
Second half March 1884

Jules Breton, Jaap Maris Tuta teksto ---
R43

Nuenen
Second half March 1884

Jesuits, Corot, Daubigny, Dupré, Millet, Haverman, Thoré, Théophile Gautier, Herkomer, Israëls, Vollon, Eliot, Dickens, Frank Holl, Adam Bede, De Genestet . . . art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from man's soul . . . .

Tuta teksto

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R44

Nuenen
mid-March 1884

--- I work every day, of course--and not a week passes without my doing some studies like these. I always consider it possible that some day I shall find an art lover who would like to buy them from me--not one or two but fifty for instance.

Tuta teksto

Parsonage Garden: F 1128, JH 466; Behind the Hedges: F 1129, JH 461; Parsonage Garden: F 1130, JH 465; Parsonage Garden: F 1133, JH 485; Pond with a Kingfisher: F 1135, JH 468; Lane of Poplars with One Figure: F 1139, JH 464; Pollard Birches with Woman and Flock of Sheep: F 1240, JH 469
R45

Nuenen
April, 1884

--- If some people you've happened to show these studies to have disapproved of them or laughed at them or said of them no matter what, they will change their minds if they continue to see them over and over again – not all of them, but some.

Tuta teksto

Houses with Thatched Roofs: F 1242, JH 474; Ditch: F 1243, JH 472; Firs in the Fen: F 1249, JH 473
R46

Nuenen
Second half September 1884

--- And a picture – whoever the artist may be – you or anyone else – should express preferably one thing only and that quite clearly.

Tuta teksto

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R47

Nuenen
August, 1884

J. F. Millet by Sensier, Blanc, Grammaire des Arts du Dessin Tuta teksto Shepherd with a Flock of Sheep: F 42, JH 517; Potato Planting: F 172, JH 514; Potato Harvest with Two Figures: F 1141, JH 510; Ploughman: F 1142, JH 512; Sower: F 1143, JH 509; Oxcart in the Snow: F 1144, JH 511
R48

Nuenen
Second half September 1884

Blanc, Fromentin, Artistes de mon Temps, Grammaire des Arts du Dessin Tuta teksto Farmers Planting Potatoes: F 41, JH 513; Shepherd with a Flock of Sheep: F 42, JH 517; Wood Gatherers in the Snow: F 43, JH 516; Potato Planting: F 172, JH 514;
R49

Nuenen
Second half September 1884

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R50

Nuenen
Late May, 1884

--- Tuta teksto Water Mill at Kollen near Nuenen: F 48a, JH 488
R51

Nuenen
25 May 1885

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R51a

(from Rappard to Vincent)
Utrecht
24 May 1885

--- And after that, while working in such a manner [on The Potato Eaters], you dare invoke the names of Millet and Breton? Come on! in my opinion art is too sublime a thing to be treated so nonchalantly.

Tuta teksto

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R52

Nuenen
June, 1885

Meissonier, Haverman, Jacquet, Millet, Breton, Lhermitte, Cabanel I do not say this because you were very useful to me as a friend – for, amice, you were distressingly little useful to me – and don't think ill of me if for the first and last time I tell you flatly--I don't know a drier friendship than yours.

Tuta teksto

The Potato Eaters: F 1661, JH 737
R53

Nuenen
Second half June 1885

Wenkebach, Messrs. Goupil & Co. My parents, my teachers, Messrs. Goupil & Co., and furthermore all kinds of friends and acquaintances have said so many unpleasant things to me for own good and with the best intentions that in the end the burden has become a little too heavy for me; and since I let people talk without paying any attention to it . . . .

Tuta teksto

The Potato Eaters: F 1661, JH 737
R54

Nuenen
Second half June 1885

Wenkebach, Tersteeg So this is my last word: I want you to take back, frankly and without reservation, what you wrote in your last letters – beginning with the one I sent back to you.

Tuta teksto

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R55

Nuenen
21 July 1885

--- Our dispute has a decidedly ridiculous side, in my opinion, and it is bound to get more and more so, for which reason I won't go into the subject any further. It is too absurd.

Tuta teksto

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R56

Nuenen
First half July 1885

--- In case you do not write this week – I no longer desire your reply. And then time will tell whether your remarks about my work and my person were justified or not – were made in good faith or not.

Tuta teksto

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R57

Nuenen
Second half August 1885

Millet, Delacroix, Wenkebach, Raffaelli, Claude Monet I know too well what my ultimate goal is, and I am too firmly convinced of being on the right road after all, to pay much attention to what people say of me – when I want to paint what I feel and feel what I paint.

Tuta teksto

Potato Eaters, The: F 78, JH 734; Potato Eaters, The: F 82, JH 764; Two Peasant Women Digging Potatoes: F 97, JH 876; The Potato Eaters: F 1661, JH 737
R58

Nuenen
September, 1885

Eugène Delacroix, Silvestre, Millet, Corot, Troyon, Daubigny, Rousseau, Daumier, Jacque, Jules Dupré, Lhermitte, Gigoux, Bracquemond, Mauve, Israëls, Maris, Géricault, Wenkebach, Paul Mantz . . . for really and truly birds – such as the wren and the golden oriole – rank among the artists too. At the same time they are beautiful stuff for still lifes.

Tuta teksto

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After the End . . . .

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Paris

1 August 1890

Theo His mother Life weighed so heavily upon him . . . .

Tuta teksto


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