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La leteroj

De Vincent al Theo

Arles: 1888-89


"Mi kredas ke foje venos la tago, kiam ankaŭ miaj pentraĵoj vendiĝos, sed mi jam tiom ŝuldas al vi kaj simple daŭrigas la elspezadon sen ion ajn enspezi. Kelkfoje tio ĉagrenas min."

Vincent van Gogh
Letero 557
24 October 1888


Letero

Ŝlosilvortoj

Eltiraĵo / Tuta teksto

Ligo al la menciitaj pentraĵoj

463

21 February 1888

Tarascon, Monticelli During my journey I thought of you at least as much as I did of the new country I was seeing.

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464

c. 25 February 1888

Reid, Monticelli, Koning, Rivet, Bernard, Zeim, Tarascon . . . the museum in Arles is a horror and a humbug . . .

Tuta teksto

Pork-Butcher's Shop Seen from a Window, A: F 389, JH 1359; Old Woman of Arles, An: F 390, JH 1357; Snowy Landscape with Arles in the Background: F 391, JH 1358
465

26-28 February 1888

Tersteeg, Reid, Van Wisselingh, Boussod, Valadon, Mesdag Tuta teksto ---
466

c. 3 March 1888

Tersteeg, Gauguin, Russell, Koning Do as you think best about the exhibition of the Independents.

Tuta teksto

Vegetable Gardens at Montmartre: F 316, JH 1246; Vegetable Gardens in Montmartre: La Butte Montmartre: F 350, JH 1245; Snowy Landscape with Arles in the Background: F 391, JH 1358; Blossoming Almond Branch in a Glass: F 392, JH 1361; Blossoming Almond Branch in a Glass with a Book: F 393, JH 1362
467

c. 9 March 1888

Lucien Pissarro, Gauguin, Russell, Tartarin on the Alps, Tersteeg, Mrs. Mauve I firmly believe in the ultimate victory, but will the artists themselves gain any advantage from it, and will they see less troubled days?
It would be some comfort, however, if one could think that a generation of more fortunate artists was to come.

Tuta teksto

Still Life with Basket of Apples (to Lucien Pissaro): F 378, JH 1340; Still Life with Basket and Six Oranges: F 395, JH 1363
468

10 March 1888

Tersteeg, Kaiser Wilhelm, Claude Monet, Renoir, Sisley, C. Pissarro, Guillaumin, Seurat, Gauguin, Grand Boulevard, Portier, Mourier Petersen, Heyerdahl, Kroyer I am continually thinking about the association of artists, and the plan has developed further in my mind.

Tuta teksto

Still Life with French Novels and a Rose: F 359, JH 1332
469

c. 14 March 1888

Tersteeg, Signac, Koning, Zola, de Goncourt, Bernard, de Lautrec, Gauguin, Jan and Hubert van Eyck I believe in the absolute necessity of a new art of colour, of design, and – of the artistic life. And if we work in that faith, it seems to me that there is a chance that we do not hope in vain.

Tuta teksto

Vegetable Gardens at Montmartre: F 316, JH 1246; Vegetable Gardens in Montmartre: La Butte Montmartre: F 350, JH 1245; Gleize Bridge over the Viguérat Canal, The: F 396, JH 1367; Langlois Bridge at Arles with Women Washing, The: F 397, JH 1368; Avenue of Plane Trees near Arles Station: F 398, JH 1366
470

18 March 1888

Bernard, Lautrec, Gauguin, Pierre et Jean, Guy de Maupassant, Flaubert, Zouaves, Millet, Daubigny . . . nothing maddens [Gauguin] more than the lack of money, and yet he feels doomed to perpetual beggary.

Tuta teksto

Two Lovers (Fragment): F 544, JH 1369
471

24 March 1888

Tersteeg, Monticelli, Diaz, Delacroix, Gauguin, Russell, Bernard, Mauve, Seurat, Reid But through it doesn't matter in the least this time, in the future my name ought to be put in the catalogue as I sign it on the canvas, namely Vincent and not Van Gogh, for the simple reason that they do not know how to pronounce the latter name here.

Tuta teksto

Seine with the Pont de Clichy, The: F 303, JH 1323; Langlois Bridge at Arles with Road alongside the Canal, The: F 400, JH 1371; Two Lovers (Fragment): F 544, JH 1369; Orchard with Blossoming Apricot Trees: F 555, JH 1380;
472

30 March 1888

Mauve, Tersteeg, Reid, Guillaumin, Koning I find painting hard work because of the wind, but I fasten my easel to pegs driven into the ground and work in spite of it, it is too lovely.

Tuta teksto

Pink Peach Tree in Blossom (Reminiscence of Mauve): F 394, JH 1379; Orchard in Blossom: F 511, JH 1386
473

c. 2 April 1888

Jet Mauve, Breitner, L. Pissarro, Reid, Wil, Tersteeg, Russell, Théatre Libre, Boyer, Koning, Vignon, M. Gendre, Weissenbruch I'm up to my ears in work, for the trees are in blossom and I want to paint a Provençal orchard of astounding gaiety.

Tuta teksto

Couples in the Voyer d'Argenson Park at Asnieres: F 314, JH 1258; Vegetable Gardens at Montmartre: F 316, JH 1246; Vegetable Gardens in Montmartre: La Butte Montmartre: F 350, JH 1245; Still Life with Basket of Apples (to Lucien Pissaro): F 378, JH 1340; Still Life with Basket of Apples: F 379, JH 1341; Pink Peach Tree in Blossom (Reminiscence of Mauve): F 394, JH 1379; Still Life with Basket and Six Oranges: F 395, JH 1363; Langlois Bridge at Arles with Women Washing, The: F 397, JH 1368; Old Man with his Head in his Hands ("At Eternity's Gate"): F 1662, JH 268
474

9 April 1888

Tersteeg, Mauve, Pissarro, Seurat, Bernard, Kahn, Rousseau, Koning I'm very curious to know what the result will be at the end of a year. I hope that by that time I shall be less bothered with breakdowns.

Tuta teksto

Pink Peach Tree in Blossom (Reminiscence of Mauve): F 394, JH 1379; Langlois Bridge at Arles with Women Washing, The: F 397, JH 1368; White Orchard, The: F 403, JH 1378; Orchard in Blossom (probably Plum Trees): F 511, JH 1386; Pink Peach Trees: F 1469, JH 1384; Langlois Bridge at Arles, The: F 1480, JH 1382
475

c. 4 April 1888

Tasset, l'Hôte Haven't a cent at the moment, as I told you before.

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476

c. 11 April 1888

Tersteeg, Jet Mauve, Tanguy, Marat's "Incarnation", Guy de Maupassant, de Lautrec, Tasset, Maris, Mauve, Israëls, Delacroix, Koning But just because it's what people have in their hearts that matters, and it is at the heart of all business dealings too, we must make friendships in Holland, or rather revive them. More especially since, as far as the Impressionists cause is concerned, there is little fear now that we shall not win.

Tuta teksto

Langlois Bridge at Arles with Women Washing, The: F 397, JH 1368; White Orchard, The: F 403, JH 1378; Langlois Bridge at Arles, The: F 571, JH 1392
477

c. 13 April 1888

Guillaumin, Koning, Bernard I have had a letter from Bernard with some sonnets he has concocted and some of them really come off quite well. He'll manage to write a good sonnet yet: a thing I could very nearly envy him.

Tuta teksto

Pink Peach Tree in Blossom (Reminiscence of Mauve): F 394, JH 1379; Langlois Bridge at Arles with Women Washing, The: F 397, JH 1368; Peach Tree in Blossom: F 404, JH 1391; Blossoming Pear Tree: F 405, JH 1394; Orchard in Blossom, Bordered by Cypresses: F 513, JH 1389; Orchard with Peach Trees in Blossom: F 551, JH 1396; Langlois Bridge at Arles, The: F 571, JH 1392
478

c. 21 April 1888

Koning, Universal Exhibition Bougueceau, Lefèvre, Benjamin Constant, Daumier, Gavarni, Bernard . . . I doubt the truth of the legend of Monticelli drinking such enormous quantities of absinthe. When I look at his work, I can't think it possible that a man who was flabby with drink could have done that.

Tuta teksto

Langlois Bridge at Arles with Women Washing, The: F 397, JH 1368; Orchard in Blossom: F 406, JH 1399; Orchard with Blossoming Plum Trees (The White Orchard): F 1414, JH 1385; Orchard with Arles in the Background: F 1516, JH 1376
479

c. 24 April 1888

McKnight, Russell, Boussod, Valadon [McKnight] is a Yankee, and probably paints much better than most Yankees do, but a Yankee all the same.
Happily for me, I am not the sort of fellow who cares for nothing in the world but pictures.

Tuta teksto

Vegetable Gardens at Montmartre: F 316, JH 1246; Vegetable Gardens in Montmartre: La Butte Montmartre: F 350, JH 1245; Orchard with Blossoming Plum Trees (The White Orchard): F 1414, JH 1385; Orchard with Arles in the Background: F 1516, JH 1376
480

1 May 1888

Bernard, Russell, Guillaumin, McKnight, Raffaëlli, Edmond de Goncourt, Jules Breton, Gauguin Once again, it's patience I need to see me through, and perseverance.

Tuta teksto

Orchard in Blossom: F 406, JH 1399; Orchard in Blossom: F 1476, JH 1409; Public Garden with Benches: F 1487, JH 1410; Public Garden with Vincent's House in the Background: F 1513, JH 1412
481

c. 3 May 1888

Koning, McKnight, Renoir, Goya, Velasquez, Monticelli, Gruby, Degas, Rivet, Pangloss I think very often of Renoir and that pure clean line of his. That's just how things and people look in this clear air.
And at the end of the year I should be a different man.

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482

c. 4 May 1888

Koning, Mignard, Mantegna, Fragonard, Renoir, Monticelli, Guy de Maupassant, Rodin, Manet, Guillaumin, Russell, Reid, McKnight, De Groux, Braekeleer But the painter of the future will be a colourist such as has never yet existed. Manet was working toward it, but as you know the impressionists have already got a stronger colour than Manet. But this painter who is to come - I can't imagine him living in little cafés, working away with a lot of false teeth, and going to the Zouave's brothels, as I do.

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483

c. 7 May 1888

Degas, Meunier, Henri de Braekeleer, Los Rios de Guadalquivir, Monet, Rappard, Schaerbeek, Hypolyte Boulanger You will see by the letters in question that I have taken a studio, an entire 4-room house at 180 francs a year. Now the thing is to go and sleep there. I am going to buy a mat and a mattress and blanket today.

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484

c. 7 May 1888

Bernard, Gauguin But all the same, now that I am feeling better, I won't give in . . . .

Tuta teksto

Path through a Field with Willows: F 407, JH 1402; Landscape with Path and Pollard Trees: F 1499, JH 1372
485

c. 10 May 1888

McKnight, Mauve If you would put on one side the best things in what I have sent, and consider these pictures as payment to be deducted from what I owe you.

Tuta teksto

White Orchard, The: F 403, JH 1378; Orchard in Blossom (probably Plum Trees): F 511, JH 1386; Langlois Bridge at Arles, The: F 571, JH 1392
486

10 May 1888

Jet Mauve, Tersteeg I consider that I am after all a workman, and not a coddled foreigner travelling for pleasure.

Tuta teksto

Pink Peach Tree in Blossom (Reminiscence of Mauve): F 394, JH 1379; Langlois Bridge at Arles with Women Washing, The: F 397, JH 1368; White Orchard, The: F 403, JH 1378; Peach Tree in Blossom: F 404, JH 1391; Orchard in Blossom (probably Plum Trees): F 511, JH 1386; Orchard in Blossom, Bordered by Cypresses: F 513, JH 1389; Orchard with Peach Trees in Blossom: F 551, JH 1396; Langlois Bridge at Arles, The: F 571, JH 1392; Orchard with Blossoming Plum Trees (The White Orchard): F 1414, JH 1385
487

12 May 1888

Tersteeg A little town surrounded by fields all covered with yellow and purple flowers; exactly – can't you see it? – like a Japanese dream.

Tuta teksto

Farmhouse in a Wheat Field: F 408, JH 1417; View of Arles with Irises in the Foreground: F 409, JH 1416; Farmhouse with Wheat Field along a Road: F 1415, JH 1408; Field with Flowers: F 1416r, JH 1415; Meadow with Flowers: F 1474, JH 1407
488

c. 15 May 1888

Tasset, Koning, Russell, Daumier, Renoir, Cézanne, Monticelli Tuta teksto Lane near Arles, A: F 567, JH 1419; Langlois Bridge at Arles, The: F 570, JH 1421
489

c. 20 May 1888

Gruby, Rivet, Mme. la Contesse de la Boissière, Degas, Corot, Puvis de Chavannes In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true.

Tuta teksto

Still Life: Blue Enamel Coffeepot, Earthenware and Fruit: F 410, JH 1426; Still Life: Majolica Jug with Wildflowers: F 600, JH 1424
490

26 May 1888

L'Intransigeant, Durand Ruel, Caillebotte, Bernard, Gauguin, Mourier Petersen, Pierre Loti, Daumier, Gruby What is always urgent is the drawing, and whether you do it straight off with the brush or with something else, say a pen, you never get enough done.

Tuta teksto

Ruins of Montmajour: F 1417, JH 1434; Landscape with Tree in the Foreground: F 1418, JH 1431; Plain of La Crau, The: F 1419, JH 1430; Ruins of Montmajour: F 1423, JH 1433; Plain of La Crau, The: F 1448, JH 1432; Landscape with Arles in the Background: F 1475, JH 1435; Hill with Bushes: F 1493, JH 1436
491

27 May 1888

Tasset, Koning I am working with pleasure.

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492

28 May 1888

Tersteeg, Mauve, Gruby, Boussod & Co., Détaille, Mourier, Gauguin, Bernard, Monet, Koning, Goupil Would you like me to go to America with you?
. . . can't you see that similarly self-sacrifice, living for other people, is a mistake if it involves suicide, for in that case you actually turn your friends into murderers.

Tuta teksto

Pink Peach Tree in Blossom (Reminiscence of Mauve): F 394, JH 1379; White Orchard, The: F 403, JH 1378; Harvest at La Crau, with Montmajour in the Background: F 412, JH 1440; Orchard in Blossom, Bordered by Cypresses: F 513, JH 1389; Orchard with Peach Trees in Blossom: F 551, JH 1396
493

28 May 1888

Gauguin, Koning, Bernard, Tersteeg And this would be the beginning of an association. Bernard, who is also coming South, will join us, and truly, I can see you at the head of an Impressionist Society in France yet.

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494

c. 5 June 1888

Gauguin, Tasset, Wagner, Régamey, Méryon I believe in the victory of Gauguin and the other artists . . . .

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495

29 May 1888

The Pissarros, Gruby, Gauguin, Tersteeg, Thomas Early tomorrow I start for Saintes-Maries on the Mediterranean.

Tuta teksto

View of Arles from a Hill: F 1452, JH 1437
496

12 June 1888

Gauguin, Laval, Mourier, Monticelli, Russell, McKnight, Ruysdael, Salomon Koninck, Rembrandt, Michel, Jules Dupré, Monet, Durand Ruel, Rodin I am working on a new subject, fields green and yellow as far as the eye can reach.

Tuta teksto

Harvest at La Crau, with Montmajour in the Background: F 412, JH 1440; Harvest Landscape: F 1483, JH 1439; Harvest in Provence, at the Left Montmajour: F 1484, JH 1438
497

12 or 13 June 1888

Gauguin, Cézanne, Delacroix, Portier, Zola If Gauguin were willing to join me, I think it would be a step forward for us. It would establish us squarely as the explorers of the South.

Tuta teksto

Vegetable Gardens at Montmartre: F 316, JH 2146; Vegetable Gardens in Montmartre: La Butte Montmartre: F 350, JH 1245; White Orchard, The: F 403, JH 1378; Still Life: Blue Enamel Coffeepot, Earthenware and Fruit: F 410, JH 1426; Harvest at La Crau, with Montmajour in the Background: F 412, JH 1440; Haystacks in Provence: F 425, JH 1442
498

c. 15 June 1888

Gauguin, Tasset, Monet, Tersteeg, Zola, Guy de Maupassant, Flaubert, Van der Meer of Delft, Rembrandt, Reid, Gabriel de la Roquette, Pissarro, McKnight, Anquetin, Thomas, Mourier, Russell, Gérôme I feel that life is so short and goes so fast; well, being a painter, one must paint after all.

Tuta teksto

Still Life: Blue Enamel Coffeepot, Earthenware and Fruit: F 410, JH 1426; Harvest at La Crau, with Montmajour in the Background: F 412, JH 1440; Haystacks in Provence: F 425, JH 1442; Haystacks near a Farm: F 1425 JH 1441; Harvest in Provence, at the Left Montmajour: F 1484, JH 1438
499

Saintes-Maries
c. 4 June 1888

Gérôme, Tarascon One night I went for a walk by the sea along the empty shore. It was not gay, but neither was it sad – it was – beautiful.

Tuta teksto

Seascape at Saintes-Maries: F 415, JH 1452; View of Saintes-Maries: F 416, JH 1447; Seascape at Saintes-Maries: F 417, JH 1453; View of Saintes-Maries with Church and Ramparts: F 1439, JH 1446
500

5 June 1888

Gauguin, Degas, Pissarro, Japan, Petit Boulevard, Anquetin, Lautrec, Seurat, Bernard I am convinced that I shall set my individuality free simply by staying on here.
What Pissarro says is true, you must boldly exaggerate the effects of either harmony or discord which colours produce.

Tuta teksto

Fishing Boats on the Beach at Saintes-Maries: F 413, JH 1460; Seascape at Saintes-Maries: F 415, JH 1452; Seascape at Saintes-Maries: F 417, JH 1453; Fishing Boats on the Beach at Saintes-Maries: F 1428, JH 1458; Street in Saintes-Maries: F 1434, JH 1449; Three Cottages in Saintes-Maries: F 1438, JH 1448
501

21 June 1888

Geffroy, Monet, Bernard, Gauguin, Millet, Lhermitte, Zouave, Dessins Raffaeli, Figaro, Caran d'Ache, Tasset I have a model at last – a Zouave – a boy with a small face, a bull neck, and the eye of a tiger.

Tuta teksto

Sower, The: F 422, JH 1470; Zouave (Half Length), The: F 423, JH 1486; Seated Zouave, The: F 424, JH 1488; Haystacks in Provence: F 425, JH 1442; Haystacks near a Farm: F 1425, JH 1441
502

23 June 1888

Monet, Bismarck, Zouave, A B C D of Drawing, by A. Cassagne, Bordighera, Hyères, Geneva, Antibes, McKnight, Mourier I am very dissatisfied with what I have been doing lately, because it is very ugly. But all the same, figure is interesting me more than landscape.

Tuta teksto

Zouave (Half Length), The: F 423, JH 1486; Zouave Sitting, Whole Figure: F 1443, JH 1485
503

28 June 1888

Bernard, Tanguy, Delacroix, Millet, Israëls, Martin, Gauguin, Monticelli Tuta teksto Sower, The: F 422, JH 1470; Bridge at Trinquetaille, The: F 426, JH 1468
504

c. 7 July 1888

Tasset, Gauguin, Guillaumin, Vignon, Bernard, Pissarro I must warn you that everyone will think that I work too fast. Don't you believe a word of it.

Tuta teksto

Canal with Women Washing: F 427, JH 1490; Orchard in Blossom, Bordered by Cypresses: F 513, JH 1389; Orchard with Peach Trees in Blossom: F 551, JH 1396; Canal with Bridge and Women Washing: F 1473, JH 1405
505

8 July 1888

Tanguy, Guillaumin, Monet, Gauguin, Bing, Loti, A. Cassagne's the A B C D of Drawing, Russell, McKnight, Bock, Guillaumin, Lautrec, Schoeffenecker, Thomas, Bernard As for the Tanguy business, don't get mixed up in it. Only I beg you not to risk entrusting him with the new pictures.

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506

c. 9 July 1888

Zola's Paradou, Bock, McKnight, Tanguy, Russell, Martin, Gauguin, Guy de Maupassant Is that all, or is there more besides? In a painter's life death is not perhaps the hardest thing there is.

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507

29 June 1888

Tasset, Édouard, Picard, Leonardo da Vinci, Monticelli, Daumier, Corot, Daubigny, Roquette, Jules and Edmond de Goncourt, Millet, Delacroix, Wagner, Russell, Mourier, Delaroche So now, when anyone says that such and such is done too quickly, you can reply that they have looked at it too quickly.

Tuta teksto

Harvest at La Crau, with Montmajour in the Background: F 412, JH 1440; Haystacks in Provence: F 425, JH 1442; Harvest in Provence, at the Left Montmajour: F 1484, JH 1438
508

5 July 1888

Russell, Balzac, César Birotteau Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone, except to ask for dinner or coffee. And it has been like that from the beginning.

But up to now the loneliness has not worried me much because I have found the brighter sun and its effect on nature so absorbing.

Tuta teksto

Sunny Lawn in a Public Park: F 428, JH 1499; Rocks with Oak Tree: F 466, JH 1489;
509

c. 13 July 1888

Gauguin, Thomas, Ruysdael, Tasset Believe me I am tired out by these drawings. I have begun a painting as well, but there is no way of doing it with the mistral blowing – there's absolutely nothing doing.

Tuta teksto

Ruins of Montmajour: F 1417, JH 1434; La Crau Seen from Montmajour: F 1420, JH 1501; Landscape near Montmajour with Train: F 1424, JH 1502; Zouave Sitting, Whole Figure: F 1443, JH 1485; Hill with the Ruins of Montmajour: F 1446, JH 1504; Montmajour: F 1447, JH 1503; View of Arles from a Hill: F 1452, JH 1437; Harvest in Provence, at the Left Montmajour: F 1484, JH 1438; Olive Trees, Montmajour: No F no., JH Add. 3
510

15 July 1888

Bing, Anquetin, Bernard, Cassagne, Thomas Japanese art, decadent in its own country, takes root again among the French impressionist artists.

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511

15 July 1888

Hokusais, Loti, Mme. Crysanthème, Millet, Monticelli, Thoré, Anquetin, Bernard, Reid, Russell, Monet, Bing, Boulanger, Victor Hugo's L'Année Terrible, Gavarni's "Human Masquerade", Charles Keene Japanese art is a thing like the Primitives, like the Greeks, like our old Dutchmen, Rembrandt, Potter, Hals, Van der Meer, Ostade, Ruysdael. They never pass away.

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512

c. 19 July 1888

Gauguin, Russell, McKnight, Bock, Prinsenhage, Ruysdael, Reid, Cézanne And I truly can't tell if I shall ever paint pictures that are peaceful and quietly worked out, for it seems to me it will always be headlong.

Tuta teksto

Flowering Garden with Path: F 429, JH 1513; Flowering Garden: F 430, JH 1510; Garden with Flowers: F 1455, JH 1512
513

c. 22 July 1888

Boussod, Boulanger, Garibaldi, Don Quixote, Brochart, London, New York, Gauguin, de Goncourt, Jules Dupré, McKnight Why, a canvas I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas.
My dear brother, if I were not broke and crazy with this blasted painting, what a dealer I'd make just for the impressionists.

Tuta teksto

Flowering Garden with Path: F 429, JH 1513; Flowering Garden: F 430, JH 1510
514

c. 25 July 1888

Gruby, Russell, Gauguin, Guillaumin, Monet, Redon, Rembrandt, Goya, Bernard, McKnight, Bock, Destrée, Millet, Zola, Hugo van der Goes, Emile Wauters, Boussod, Bismark Now if you know what a 'mousmé' is (you will find out when you read Loti's Madame Chrysanthème), I have just painted one . . . . A mousmé is a Japanese girl - Provençal in this case - 12 to 14 years old.

Tuta teksto

La Mousmé, Sitting: F 431, JH 1519
515

c. 26 July 1888

Gauguin, Russell, Mourier Tuta teksto ---
516

31 July 1888

Gauguin, Russell, McKnight, Bernard, Bing So at last our uncle's sufferings are over.

Tuta teksto

Flowering Garden with Path: F 429, JH 1513; Flowering Garden: F 430, JH 1510; La Mousmé, Sitting: F 431, JH 1519; Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin: F 432, JH 1522
517

c. 3 August 1888

Gauguin, Russell So now I am working on two figures, one the head, and one a half length with the hands, of an old postman in a dark blue uniform. He has a head like Socrates, interesting to paint.

Tuta teksto

Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin: F 432, JH 1522; Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin: F 433, JH 1524; Haystacks near a Farm: F 1427, JH 1525; Fishing Boats at Sea: F 1430a, JH 1526; Fishing Boat at Sea, A: F 1433, JH 1528; Lawn with Weeping Tree: F 1449, JH 1534; Garden with Flowers: F 1454, JH 1532; Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin: F 1458, JH 1536; Zouave, Half-Figure: F 1482a, JH 1535; Harvest Landscape: F 1486, JH 1527; Wheat Field with Sheaves: F 1489, JH 1530; Wheat Field with Sheaves and Arles in the Background: F 1490, JH 1529; Road to Tarascon, The: F 1502a, JH 1531; La Mousmé, Half-Figure: F 1503, JH 1533
518

6 August 1888

Cor, Russell, Rochefort, Lemud, Mephistopheles, Raoul, Hoffman, Edgar Poe, Delacroix, de Goncourt, Moses, Mahomet, Christ, Luther, Bunyan, Frans Hals, Rembrandt I always feel I am a traveller, going somewhere and to some destination. If I tell myself that the somewhere and the destination do not exist, that seems to me very reasonable and likely enough.

Tuta teksto

Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin: F 432, JH 1522; Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin: F 433, JH 1524; Night Cafe in the Place Lamartine in Arles, The: F 463, JH 1575
519

8 August 1888

Lemud, Monticelli, Daumier, Decamps, Diaz, Dupré, Meunier, Delacroix, Rousseau, Diaz, Monticelli, Isabey, Dupré, Jongkind, Ziem, Israëls, Corot, Jacque, Manet, Courbet, Quost, Jeannin, Millet, McKnight, Bock, Gauguin, Zola, Voltaire, Jan Steen, Ostade, Madame Chrysanthème, the Buteaux, Koning, Mourier, Cassagne, Lalouche, Chaussée d'Antin And although I've knocked off some fifty drawings and painted studies here, I seem to have done absolutely nothing. I'd gladly content myself with being a pioneer for the other painters of the future who come to work in the South.

Tuta teksto

Harvest at La Crau, with Montmajour in the Background: F 412, JH 1440; Seascape at Saintes-Maries: F 415, JH 1452; Seascape at Saintes-Maries: F 417, JH 1453; Sower, The: F 422, JH 1470; Seated Zouave, The: F 424, JH 1488; Sunny Lawn in a Public Park: F 428, JH 1499; Flowering Garden with Path: F 429, JH 1513; Flowering Garden: F 430, JH 1510; Fishing Boats at Sea: F 1430b, JH 1541; Fishing Boat at Sea, A: F 1431, JH 1542; Sower with Setting Sun: F 1441, JH 1543; Newly Mowed Lawn with Weeping Tree: F 1451, JH 1545; Garden with Flowers: F 1455, JH 1512; Garden with Flowers, A: F 1456, JH 1537; Garden with Sunflowers: F 1457, JH 1539; Harvest Landscape: F 1485, JH 1540
520

9 August 1888

Lautrec, Delacroix, Tanguy, Daumier, the postman (Roulin), La Terre, Germinal, Millet You are shortly to make the acquaintance of Master Patience Escalier . . . .
. . . . I am returning to the ideas I had in the country before I knew the impressionists.

Tuta teksto

Potato Eaters, The: F 82, JH 764; Portrait of Patience Escalier: F 443, JH 1548; Portrait of Eugene Boch: F 462, JH 1574; Joseph Roulin, Three-Quarter-Length: F 1459, JH 1574; Portrait of Patience Escalier: F 1460, JH 1549
521

11 August 1888

Tasset, Gruby, Russell, Prevost, Velasquez, Van der Meer of Delft It's not a bad place, the South.

Tuta teksto

Garden with Flowers, A: F 1456, JH 1537
522

c. 13 August 1888

Cassagne, La Fin de Lucie Pellegrin, da Vinci, Correggio, Rowlandson, Fragonard, Goya, Mourier, Gauguin, Coppée, General Boulanger There is a sun, a light that for want of a better word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!

Tuta teksto

Encampment of Gypsies with Caravans: F 445, JH 1554; Railway Carriages: F 446, JH 1553; Thistles: F 447, JH 1550; Two Thistles: F 447a, JH 1551
523

c. 18 August 1888

Bernard, Gauguin, Laval, École des Beaux-Arts To be carefree, to hope that someday or another one will be free from want, what a dream! I should think myself very happy if I could work for a wage just sufficient to keep me in peace in my studio, all my life.

Tuta teksto

Sower, The: F 422, JH 1470; Portrait of Patience Escalier, Shepherd in Provence: F 443, JH 1548; Garden with Flowers: F 1455, JH 1512; Garden with Flowers, A: F 1456, JH 1537; Garden with Sunflowers: F 1457, JH 1539; Joseph Roulin, Three-Quarter-Length: F 1459, JH 1547; Portrait of Patience Escalier: F 1460, JH 1549
524

c. 14 August 1888

Tanguy, Delacroix, Bernard, Bouguereau, Zola, Gauguin, Moravian Brothers So I have a horror of success, I am afraid of "the morning after the night before" of an impressionist success, even these difficult days will later seem to us "the good old times!"

Tuta teksto

Pink Peach Tree in Blossom (Reminiscence of Mauve): F 394, JH 1379; Seascape at Saintes-Maries: F 415, JH 1452; Sower, The: F 422, JH 1470; Bridge at Trinquetaille, The: F 426, JH 1468; Canal with Women Washing: F 427, JH 1490; Painter on His Way to Work, The: F 448, JH 1491; Quay with Men Unloading Sand Barges: F 449, JH 1558; Garden with Flowers: F 1455, JH 1512; Garden with Flowers, A: F 1456, JH 1537; Garden with Sunflowers: F 1457, JH 1539; Quay with Men Unloading Sand Barges: F 1462, JH 1556; Quay with Men Unloading Sand Barges: no F number, JH 1557
524a

15 August 1888

[Telegram]

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525

15 August 1888

Milliet, Daumier, Monet, Guy de Maupassant, Flaubert, Balzac, Zola, Russell, Gauguin If I had the faith to do it, I'd be a notable madman; now I am an insignificant one, but you see I am not sufficiently ambitious for that fame to set a match to the powder.

Tuta teksto

Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin: F 432, JH 1522; Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin: F 433, JH 1524; Quay with Men Unloading Sand Barges: F 1462, JH 1556
526

c. 21 August 1888

Tasset, Koning I am hard at it, painting with the enthusiasm of a Marseillais eating bouillabaisse, which won't surprise you when you know that what I'm at is the painting of some big sunflowers.

Tuta teksto

Coal Barges: F 437, JH 1570; Coal Barges: F 438, JH 1571; Thistles: F 447, JH 1550; Two Thistles: F 447a, JH 1551; Three Sunflowers in a Vase: F 453, JH 1559; Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers: F 456, JH 1561; Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers: F 459, JH 1560; Quay with Men Unloading Sand Barge: F 1462, JH 1556
527 (unsent)

c. 27 August 1888

Tasset, Gérôme, Manet, Hotel Drouot, Jeannin What a pity painting costs so much!
And in the end it is to be feared that as soon as the new painting is appreciated, the painters will go soft.

Tuta teksto

Still Life with Grapes, Pears and Lemons: F 383, JH 1339; Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers: F 458, JH 1667; Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers: F 459, JH 1560
528

c. 27 August 1888

Manet, Hotel Drouot, Jeannin, Seurat's "Grande Jatte", Signac, Anquetin, Bouvard, Pecuchet, "à Veau l'eau", Au Bonheur des Dames, Bel Ami, McKnight, Borinage, Gauguin Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle – more like music and less like sculpture – and above all it promises colour. If only it keeps this promise.

Tuta teksto

Still Life with Grapes, Pears and Lemons: F 383, JH 1339; Portrait of Patience Escalier: F 444, JH 1563; Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers: F 458, JH 1667
529

c. 29 August 1888

Russell, the Luxembourg Sometimes I feel too feeble to fight against existing circumstances, and I should have to be cleverer and richer and younger to win.

Fortunately for me, I do not hanker after victory any more, and all that I seek in painting is a way to make life bearable.

Tuta teksto

Portrait of Patience Escalier: F 444, JH 1563; Pair of Shoes, A: F 461, JH 1569
530

1 September 1888

Gauguin, Bing, Balzac, Daumier, Lemud, Daudet's L'Immortel, Gustave Aimard, Tartarin Often now I hesitate before planning a picture because of what the colours would cost us.

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531

3 September 1888

the "vingtistes", Dante, Delacroix, "Bark of Christ", L'Immortel by Daudet, Védrine, Tartarin, Candide, Ary Scheffer, McKnight, Daumier, de Groux, the "Benedicité", Brussels Museum, Reid To express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance.

Tuta teksto

Portrait of the Art Dealer Alexander Reid: F 343, JH 1250; Harvest at La Crau, with Montmajour in the Background: F 412, JH 1440; Seascape at Saintes-Maries: F 417, JH 1453; Sunny Lawn in a Public Park: F 428, JH 1499; La Mousmé, Sitting: F 431, JH 1519; Portrait of Patience Escalier: F 444, JH 1563; Portrait of Eugene Boch: F 462, JH 1574; Fishing Boats at Sea: F 1430b, JH 1541
532

3 September 1888

Bock, Tasset, Gauguin, Bernard, Bordighera, de Goncourt How I'd like to settle down and have a home!

Tuta teksto

Portrait of Eugene Boch: F 462, JH 1574
533

8 September 1888

Gauguin, Bernard, Bing, Pissarro, Mantz, Hokusai, Tasset, Milliet I often think the night is more alive and more richly coloured than the day.

Tuta teksto

Potato Eaters, The: F 82, JH 764; Sower, The: F 422, JH 1470; La Mousmé, Sitting: F 431, JH 1519; Portrait of Patience Escalier: F 444, JH 1563; Portrait of Eugene Boch: F 462, JH 1574; Night Cafe in the Place Lamartine in Arles, The: F 463, JH 1575; Night Cafe in Arles, The: F 1463, JH 1576
534

9 September 1888

Postman Roulin, Gauguin, Daumier, Delacroix, Tersteeg, Sisley, Tanguy In my picture of the "Night Café" I have tried to express the idea that the café is a please where one can ruin oneself, go mad or commit a crime. So I have tried to express, as it were, the powers of darkness in a low public house, by soft Louis XV green and malachite, contrasting with yellow-green and harsh blue-greens, and all this in an atmosphere like a devil's furnace, of pale sulphur.

Tuta teksto

Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers: F 456, JH 1561; Still Life: Vase with Fourteen Sunflowers: F 458, JH 1667; Night Cafe in the Place Lamartine in Arles, The: F 463, JH 1575; Night Cafe in Arles, The: F 1463, JH 1576
535

c. 12 September 1888

Gauguin, Durand Ruel, Monet, Laval, Tasset, Bernard, Dostoievsky But if Gauguin came and if it was fairly well known that we were staying here and helping artists live and work, I still do not see at all why the South should not become another native land to you as well as to me.

Tuta teksto

Sower, The: F 422, JH 1470; Night Cafe in the Place Lamartine in Arles, The: F 463, JH 1575; Rocks with Oak Tree: F 466, JH 1489; Old Mill, The: F 550, JH 1577
536

c. 11 September 1888

Gauguin, Frans Hals, Rembrandt Tuta teksto ---
537

c. 16 September 1888

Figaro, Auteuil The problem of painting night scenes and effects on the spot and actually by night interests me enormously. This week I have done absolutely nothing but paint and sleep and have my meals.

Tuta teksto

Sunny Lawn in a Public Park: F 428, JH 1499; 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; Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Paul Gauguin): F 476, JH 1581
538

c. 17 September 1888

Maurin, Bosboom, Millet, Daumier, Zola, Delacroix, Africa, Bernard, Gauguin, Laval, Goupil, Milliet If what one is doing looks out upon the infinite, and if one sees that one's work has its raison d'être and continuance in the future, then one works with more serenity.
You are kind to painters, and I tell you, the more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Tuta teksto

Lane in the Public Garden at Arles, A: F 470, JH 1582
538a

c. 17 September 1888

Gauguin, Bernard, Tanguy, Segatori If living together should be to his advantage, nothing would prevent your agreeing to buy something from [Gauguin] from time to time, if it is possible. But no arrangement of any sort with him, for he is too fickle.

Tuta teksto

Lane in the Public Garden at Arles, A: F 470, JH 1582
539

c. 17 September 1888

Van der Meer of Delft, Bock, Mourier, Manet, Boccaccio, Bernard, Gauguin, Dante, Petrarch, Giotto, Botticelli, Greece, Tartarin, Daumier, Venus, Arles, Lesbos, Monet, Antibes, Revue Indépendante, Milliet, Seurat, Delacroix, Monticelli, Wagner, Tanguy I always think that poetry is more terrible than painting, though painting is a dirtier and a much more worrying job.

Tuta teksto

Quay with Men Unloading Sand Barges: F 449, JH 1558; Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers: F 456, JH 1561; Still Life: Vase with Fourteen Sunflowers: F 458, JH 1667; Portrait of Eugene Boch: F 462, JH 1574; Night Cafe in the Place Lamartine in Arles, The: F 463, JH 1575; 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; Park at Arles with the Entrance Seen through the Trees, The: F 471, JH 1613; Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Paul Gauguin): F 476, JH 1581; Old Mill, The: F 550, JH 1577
540

c. 22 September 1888

Milliet, Russell, Bing's Japon, Madame Chrysanthéme, Germinie Lacerteux, Maurin, Tanguy For the second time I have scraped off a study of Christ with the angel in the Garden of Olives.
After all, we don't really know anything about our own personal future, but we nevertheless feel that impressionism will last.

Tuta teksto

Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Paul Gauguin): F 476, JH 1581
541

c. 27 September 1888

Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Milliet, Seurat, Signac, Gauguin, Guillaumin, Monticelli, Laval, Vignon I have a lover's insight or a lover's blindness for work just now.

Because these colours about me are all new to me, and give me an extraordinary exaltation.

Tuta teksto

Sunny Lawn in a Public Park: F 428, JH 1499; Public Park with Weeping Willow: The Poet's Garden I: F 468, JH 1578; Ploughed Field: F 574, JH 1586; Bush in the Park at Arles: The Poet's Garden II: F 1465, JH 1583
541a

c. 26 September 1888

Milliet, Ziem, L'abbé Constantin by Georges Ohnet, Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant, Tanguy, Delacroix As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colours enough to paint the beautiful things I see.

Tuta teksto

Portrait of Milliet, Second Lieutenant of the Zouaves: F 473, JH 1588; Ploughed Field: F 574, JH 1586
542

24 September 1888

Hokusai, Daumier, Delacroix, Géricault, Millet, Lerat, Durand-Ruel, Wagner, Bismark, Jacquemart, Meissonier, Tolstoy, George Eliot, Bing, Rubens, Veronese, Levy, Jordaens, Monticelli, Velásquez, Gauguin, Madame de Lareby Laroquette But what I am sure of is that by staying here I shall make some progress. And in order to do a picture which is really of the South, a little skill is not enough. It is observing things for a long time that gives you greater maturity and a deeper understanding.

Tuta teksto

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543

28 September 1888

Zola (L'Assommoir), Flaubert (Bouvard et Pécuchet), Gauguin, Bernard, Maurin, Tolstoi (My Religion) That does not prevent me from having a terrible need of-—shall I say the word?-—of religion. Then I go out at night to paint the stars . . . .

Tuta teksto

Vincent's House in Arles (The Yellow House): F 464, JH 1589; Starry Night over the Rhone: F 474, JH 1592; Ploughed Field: F 574, JH 1586; Vincent's House in Arles (The Yellow House): F 1413, JH 1591; Vincent's House in Arles (The Yellow House): F 1453, JH 1590; Starry Night, The: F 1515, JH 1593
544

3 October 1888

Gauguin, Laval, Monet, Bernard, Thomas, Corot, Daumier, Tanguy, Goupil After continued efforts on your part and mine, now at last something is beginning to show on the horizon: Hope.

Tuta teksto

Green Vineyard, The: F 475, JH 1595
545

7 October 1888

Gauguin, Bernard, Manet, Millet, Diaz, Freret Yesterday I painted a sunset.

Tuta teksto

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
546

8 October 1888

Tasset, Bague, Corot, Mauve, Mesdag, Maris, Reid, Monticelli, Gauguin, Méryon, Mother These four days I have lived mainly on 23 cups of coffee, with bread which I still have to pay for.

Tuta teksto

White Orchard, The: F 403, JH 1378; Harvest at La Crau, with Montmajour in the Background: F 412, JH 1440; 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; Portrait of the Artist's Mother: F 477, JH 1600; Ploughed Field: F 574, JH 1586
547

8 October 1888

Gauguin, Bague, Tripp, Mauve, Tasset The work holds me in its grip, and I am sure I shall not lose by it if I can go on like this, the big canvases are all good. But they are exhausting too.

Tuta teksto

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; Ploughed Field: F 574, JH 1586
548

9 October 1888

Bague, Mauve, Mesdag, Bernard I am working on a portrait of Mother, because the black-and-white photograph annoys me so.

Tuta teksto

White Orchard, The: F 403, JH 1378; Harvest at La Crau, with Montmajour in the Background: F 412, JH 1440; Vincent's House in Arles (The Yellow House): F 464, JH 1589; Portrait of the Artist's Mother: F 477, JH 1600; Brothel, The: F 478, JH 1599; Orchard in Blossom (probably Plum Trees): F 511, JH 1386; Vincent's House in Arles (The Yellow House): F 1413, JH 1591
549

10 October 1888

Gauguin, Brittany, Pangloss, Bernard, Laval Truly, it does you good to come home, and it gives you new ideas for work.

Tuta teksto

Entrance to the Public Park in Arles: F 566, JH 1585
550

10 October 1888

Thomas, Les Frères Zemganno, the de Goncourt brothers, Bernard, Marseilles, Cannebière, Monticelli, Garibaldi But have I set my heart on my work being a success? A thousand times no.

Tuta teksto

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551

c. 22 October 1888

Seurat, "Grande Jatte", Les Frères Zemganno, the de Goncourt brothers First I must try to get to know Gauguin better. When we have him, we can't lose anyhow.

Tuta teksto

Public Park at Arles, The: F 472, JH 1598
552

13 October 1888

Tartarin, Monticelli, Monet, Bosboom Tuta teksto Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers: F 456, JH 1561; Still Life: Vase with Fourteen Sunflowers: F 458, JH 1667; 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; Lane in the Public Garden at Arles, A: F 470, JH 1582; Starry Night over the Rhone: F 474, JH 1592; Green Vineyard, The: F 475, JH 1595; Tarascon Diligence: F 478a, JH 1605; Public Garden with Couple and Blue Fir Tree: The Poet's Garden III: F 479, JH 1601; Railway Bridge over Avenue Montmajour, Arles, The: F 480, JH 1603; Trinquetaille Bridge, The: F 481, JH 1604; Entrance to the Public Park in Arles: F 566, JH 1585; Ploughed Field: F 574, JH 1586
553

14 October 1888

Bernard, Moret, Laval, Gauguin, Seurat, Félibres, Clovis Hugues, Mistral, Monticelli Tuta teksto ---
554

16 October 1888

Japanese prints I had a new idea in my head and here is the sketch of it . . . it's just simply my bedroom . . . The broad lines of the furniture again must express inviolable rest . . . This by way or revenge for the enforced rest I was obliged to take.

Tuta teksto

Night Cafe in the Place Lamartine in Arles, The: F 463, JH 1575; Tarascon Diligence: F 478a, JH 1605; Vincent's Bedroom in Arles: F 482, JH 1608
555

17 October 1888

Pissarro, Breitner, Rappard, Tersteeg, Bing, Russell, Seurat, Africa, Sicily, Richepin's Césarine, La Glu, Guy de Maupassant, Monsieur Parent, Pierre et Jean, Eugénie Grandet by Balzac . . . I could not even do a stroke of work without you . . . .

Tuta teksto

Still Life with French Novels and a Rose: F 359, JH 1332; Vincent's Bedroom in Arles: F 482, JH 1608
556

c. 21 October 1888

Hugo van der Goes, Emile Wauter, Delaroche, Delort, Delacroix, Meissonier, Thomas, Tartarin Yet even then I do not think that my madness could take the form of persecution mania, since when in a state of excitement my feelings lead me rather to the contemplation of eternity, and eternal life.
It makes me sick to have to ask you for money again, but I can't help it, and even so I am broke again. However, I think that someday the work I do by spending a little more will seem a better bargain to us than the earlier stuff.

Tuta teksto

Lovers: The Poet's Garden IV, The: F 485, JH 1615
557

24 October 1888

Gauguin I cannot help it that my pictures do not sell.
I believe that the time will come when I too shall sell, but I am so far behind with you, and while I go on spending, I bring nothing in. Sometimes the thought of it saddens me.

Tuta teksto

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558

28 October 1888

Gauguin Besides, if what I am doing should be good, then we shall lose nothing in the money line, for it will mature quietly, like wine in the cellar.

Tuta teksto

Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers: F 456, JH 1561; Still Life: Vase with Fourteen Sunflowers: F 458, JH 1667; Vincent's Bedroom in Arles: F 482, JH 1608; Sower, The: F 494, JH 1617
558a

c. 25 November 1888

Gauguin, De Haan, Rembrandt, Silvestre, Delacroix, Grammaire des arts du dessin by Ch. Blanc, Bernard, Isaäcson, Monticelli Here the weather is cold, notwithstanding which one sees very fine things. For instance yesterday evening an extraordinarily beautiful sunset of a mysterious, sickly citron colour – Prussian blue cypresses against trees with dead leaves in all sorts of broken tones without any speckling with bright greens.

Tuta teksto

Sower, The: F 450, JH 1627
558b

28 October 1888

Gauguin, Bernard, Milliet, Daumier Now it is most unlikely that I shall leave the shore and put to sea, and the little yellow house here in Arles will remain a way station between Africa, the Tropics, and the people of the North.

Tuta teksto

Sower, The: F 494, JH 1617; Trunk of an Old Yew Tree: F 573, JH 1659
559

c. 6 November 1888

Gauguin, de Haan, Brittany, Arlésienne, Martinique, Isaäcson, Java But if only you had been with us on Sunday, when we saw a red vineyard, all red like red wine. In the distance it turned to yellow, and then a green sky with the sun, the earth after the rain violet, sparkling yellow here and there where it caught the reflection of the setting sun.

Tuta teksto

Les Alyscamps: Falling Autumn Leaves: F 486, JH 1620; Les Alyscamps: F 487, JH 1621; L'Arlesienne: Madame Ginoux with Gloves and Umbrella: F 489, JH 1625; Red Vineyard, The: F 495, JH 1626
560

c. 4 December 1888

Nuenen, Bernard, Chatrian, Mme. Thérèse, L'Ami Fritz, Histoire d'un sous-maître, Gauguin, "Vingtistes" But I have made portraits of a whole family . . . .
If we can stand the siege, victory will come to us one day, in spite of our not being among the people who are talked about.

Tuta teksto

Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin: F 433, JH 1524; Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin: F 434, JH 1647; Baby Marcelle Roulin, The: F 441a, JH 1640; Sower, The: F 450, JH 1627; Portrait of Armand Roulin: F 492, JH 1642; Portrait of Armand Roulin: F 493, JH 1643; Sower, The: F 494, JH 1617; Memory of the Garden at Etten: F 496, JH 1630; Portrait of Madame Augustine Roulin: F 503, JH 1646; Portrait of Camille Roulin: F 537, JH 1644; Portrait of Camille Roulin: F 538, JH 1645
561

c. 12 November 1888

M. C. Dujardin, Revue Indépendante, Tanguy, Thomas, Martin, Monticelli, Millet, Madame Chrysanthème, Gauguin, Bernard Tuta teksto Brothel, The: F 478, JH 1599; Red Vineyard, The: F 495, JH 1626
562

c. 16 November 1888

Jet Mauve, Laval, Bernard, Luce, Gauguin, Lecture Française, Tasset, Haan, Isaäcson [Gauguin] He is a very great artist and a very excellent friend.

Tuta teksto

Pink Peach Tree in Blossom (Reminiscence of Mauve): F 394, JH 1379; Memory of the Garden at Etten: F 496, JH 1630; Novel Reader, The: F 497, JH 1632
563

c. 23 November 1888

Gauguin, Goupil, Boussod, Bock, Guillaumin, Jet Mauve, Monet As far as I am concerned, I shall either never darken the Goupil's door again, which is probable, or else I shall go in boldly, which is hardly likely.

Tuta teksto

Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers: F 456, JH 1561; Still Life: Vase with Fourteen Sunflowers: F 458, JH 1667; Vincent's Chair with His Pipe: F 498, JH 1635; Paul Gauguin's Armchair: F 499, JH 1636
564

Second half December, 1888

Brias, Delacroix, Ricard, Courbet, Cabanel, Couture, Verdier, Tasset, Giotto, Paul Potter, Botticelli, Rousseau, Rembrandt, Fromentin, de Haan, Isaäcson, Degas, Montpellier Museum Gauguin and I talked a lot about Delacroix, Rembrandt, etc. Our arguments are terribly electric, we come out of them sometimes with our heads as exhausted as an electric battery after it has run down.

Tuta teksto

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565

23 December 1888

--- I think myself that Gauguin was a little out of sorts with the good town of Arles, the little yellow house where we work, and especially with me.

Tuta teksto

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566

4 January 1889

Gauguin, Roulin, André Bonger, Mother, Schuffenecker My dear lad, I am so terribly distressed at your journey. I should have wished you had been spared that, for after all no harm came to me, and there was no reason why you should put yourself to that trouble.

Tuta teksto

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567

2 January 1889

Rey, Gauguin, Bonger Now, let's talk about our friend Gauguin, have I terrified him?

Tuta teksto

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568

7 January 1889

Rey, Brias, Delacroix, Montpellier Musée, Gauguin, Voltaire, Bonger, De Haan, Isaäcson, Mother, Wil, Jet Mauve I do so regret that you had all that trouble for such a trifle. Forgive me, who am after all probably the primary cause of it all.

Tuta teksto

Portrait of Doctor Felix Rey: F 500, JH 1659
569

7 January 1889

Mother, Wil, Roulin, Rey, Delacroix, Puvis de Chavannes, Rembrandt, "Anatomy Lesson.", François Buffa & Sons, Bonger I assure you that some days at the hospital were very interesting, and perhaps it is from the sick that one learns how to live.

Tuta teksto

Portrait of Doctor Felix Rey: F 500, JH 1659
570

9 January 1889

Gauguin, Rey, Brias, Monticelli, Silvestre, Degas, Rivet, Breda, Haan, Isaäcson, Roulin They have just told me that during my absence the owner of my house here made an arrangement with a fellow who has a tobacco shop to turn me out and give the tobacconist the house . . . . This has rather upset me, for I am not much disposed to have myself turned out of this house practically in disgrace . . . .

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Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Paul Gauguin): F 476, JH 1581
571

17 January 1889

Roulin, Rey, Gauguin, Rivet, Rembrandt, De Haan, Isaäcson, Pre-Raphaelites, Tarascon, Tartarin, Bompard, Numa Roumestan, Daudet, Bonaparte, Egypt, Denmark, Martinique, Laval . . . my pictures are valueless, it is true they cost me an extraordinary amount, perhaps even in blood and brains at times.

Tuta teksto

Two Cut Sunflowers: F 375, JH 1329; Two Cut Sunflowers: F 376, JH 1331; Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers: F 456, JH 1561; Still Life: Vase with Fourteen Sunflowers: F 458, JH 1667; Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Paul Gauguin): F 476, JH 1581; Tarascon Diligence: F 478a, JH 1605; Vincent's Chair with His Pipe: F 498, JH 1635; Paul Gauguin's Armchair: F 499, JH 1636; Portrait of Doctor Felix Rey: F 500, JH 1659; Self-Portrait: F 501, JH 1634; Self-Portrait: F 525, JH 1665; Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe: F 529, JH 1658; Still Life: Drawing Board, Pipe, Onions and Sealing-Wax: F 604, JH 1656
572

19 January 1889

Rey, André Bonger, Jo Bonger, Guillaumin, Bernard, Algiers, Milliet, Roulin, Socrates, Michelet, Chatrian, Gauguin, Schuffenecker What wouldn't I have given to be able to spend a day here with you and show you the work in progress, and the house, etc., etc.

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573

22 or 23 January 1889

Monticelli, Roulin, Gauguin, Mother, Jeannin, Quost, Mme. Ginoux You know that the peony is Jeannin's, the hollyhock belongs to Quost, but the sunflower is somewhat my own.

Tuta teksto

Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers: F 456, JH 1561; Still Life: Vase with Fourteen Sunflowers: F 458, JH 1667; Vincent's Bedroom in Arles: F 482, JH 1608; L'Arlesienne: Madame Ginoux with Gloves and Umbrella: F 489, JH 1625; Still Life with Oranges, Lemons and Blue Gloves: F 502, JH 1664; La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin): F 508, JH 1671
574

28 January 1889

Gauguin, Monticelli, Brias, Faure, Pangloss, Folies Arlésiennes, "Félibres", St. Vitus' dance, Delacroix, Berlioz, Wagner Old Gauguin and I understand each other basically, and if we are a bit mad, what of it?

Tuta teksto

White Orchard, The: F 403, JH 1378; Harvest at La Crau, with Montmajour in the Background: F 412, JH 1440; Still Life: Vase with Fourteen Sunflowers: F 454, JH 1562; Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers: F 455, JH 1668; Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers: F 456, JH 1561; Still Life: Vase with Fourteen Sunflowers: F 458, JH 1667; La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin): F 506, JH 1670; La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin): F 508, JH 1671
575

30 January 1889

Roulin, Gauguin, Rochefort, Boulanger, Cabanel, Bouguereau, De Haan, Isaäcson Everyone here is kind to me, the neighbours, etc., kind and attentive as if I were at home.

Tuta teksto

Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers: F 454, JH 1562; Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers: F 455, JH 1668; Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers: F 456, JH 1561; Still Life: Vase with Fourteen Sunflowers: F 458, JH 1667; La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin): F 505, JH 1669; La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin): F 506, JH 1670; La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin): F 508, JH 1671
576

3 February 1889

Mme. Roulin, La Mireille, Mistral, Rey, Rue Lepic, Rue Rodier, Ricord, Raspail I always tell the people here who ask after my health that I shall begin by dying in their midst, and that then my malady will be dead.

Tuta teksto

White Orchard, The: F 403, JH 1378; Harvest at La Crau, with Montmajour in the Background: F 412, JH 1440; Sower, The: F 422, JH 1470; La Mousmé, Sitting: F 431, JH 1519; Still Life: Vase with Fourteen Sunflowers: F 454, JH 1562; Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers: F 455, JH 1668; La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin): F 505, JH 1669; La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin): F 506, JH 1670; La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin): F 508, JH 1671
577

c. 17 February 1889

Rey, Aix, Arabia, Africa, De Haan, Isaäcson, Antibes, Nice, Mentone,, Mother Now mind, you must not think too much about me, nor fret yourself. It will probably have to take its course, and we cannot change much in our fate by taking precautions.

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578

c. 22 February 1889

Mme. Roulin, Mourier, Gauguin, Koning, Bernard, Salles, Rivet Well, well, after all there are so many painters who are cracked in one way or another that little by little I shall be reconciled to it.

Tuta teksto

La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin): F 505, JH 1669; La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin): F 506, JH 1670; La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin): F 507, JH 1672; La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin): F 508, JH 1671
579

19 March 1889

Tardieu, Signac, Rey, Bonger Anyhow, here I am, shut up in a cell all the livelong day, under lock and key and with keepers, without my guilt being proved or even open to proof.
I will not deny that I would rather have died than have caused and suffered such trouble.

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580

c. 22 March 1889

Salles, Signac, Roulin As far as I can judge, I am not properly speaking a madman. You will see that the canvases I have done in the intervals are steady and not inferior to the others. I miss the work more than it tires me.

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581

24 March 1889

Signac, Jules Dupré, Ceux de Ia Glèbe, Camille Lemonnier, Rey, Rochefort, Hugo, Quinet, Degas Am I to suffer imprisonment or the madhouse?

Tuta teksto

Still Life with Bloaters: F 203, JH 1123; Still Life with Bloaters: F 283, JH 1120; Still Life: Bloaters on a Piece of Yellow Paper: F 510, JH 1661
582

29 March 1889

Salles, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Beecher Stowe, Dickens, Germinie Lacerteux, Koning, Mauve, Lecomte, Faubert's Salammbô, Thomas These last three months do seem so strange to me. Sometimes moods of indescribable mental anguish, sometimes moments when the veil of time and the fatality of circumstances seemed to be torn apart for an instant.

Tuta teksto

La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin): F 504, JH 1655
583

c. 5 April 1889

Tasset, Le Fifre, Forain, Roulin, Salles, Rey, Figaro, Monet, Dickens' "Christmas Books", Carlyle And now, my dear lad, I do believe I shall soon not be ill enough to have to stay shut up. Otherwise I am beginning to get used to it, and if I had to stay for good in an asylum, I should make up my mind to it and I think I could find subjects for painting there as well.
I tell you I have no right to complain of anything whatever about Arles, when I think of some things I have seen there which I shall never be able to forget.

Tuta teksto

La Crau with Peach Trees in Blossom: F 514, JH 1681
584

c. 13 April 1889

Tasset, Rey, Signac Hoping again that everything to do with your marriage has gone off to your liking, and wishing you and your wife much happiness from the bottom of my heart.

Tuta teksto

La Crau with Peach Trees in Blossom: F 514, JH 1681; View of Arles with Trees in Blossom: F 515, JH 1683
585

c. 21 April 1889

Salles, Rey What comforts me a little is that I am beginning to consider madness as a disease like any other and accept the thing as such, whereas during the crises themselves I thought that everything I imagined was real.
I shake your hand in thought. I do not know if I shall write very, very often because not all my days are clear enough for me to write fairly logically, All your kindness to me seemed greater than ever to me today. I can't put the way I feel it in words, but I assure you that this kindness has been pure gold, and if you do not see any results from it, my dear brother, don't fret about it; your own goodness abides.

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586

24 April 1889

Salles, Rey I assure you that I am much calmer now that I can tell myself that you have a companion for good. Above all, do not imagine that I am unhappy.

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587

c. 25-28 April 1889

Salles, Rey, Renan, Delacroix, Wil Oh, my dear Theo, if you saw the olives just now.... The leaves, old silver and silver turning to green against the blue. And the orange-coloured ploughed earth. It is something quite different from your idea of it in the North, the tender beauty, the distinction!

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588

30 April 1889

Delacroix, Monticelli, Corot, Millet, Pangloss, Bouvard, Pécuchet, Bruyas, Puvis de Chavannes, Daniel, Courbet, Cabanel, Victor Giraud, Richepin, Salles, Bernard, Gauguin If I were without your friendship, they would drive me remorselessly to suicide, and coward that I am, I should end by committing it.

Tuta teksto

Still Life: Vase with Fourteen Sunflowers: F 454, JH 1562; Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers: F 455, JH 1668; Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers: F 456, JH 1561; Still Life: Vase with Fourteen Sunflowers: F 458, JH 1667; Portrait of Eugene Boch: F 462, JH 1574; Night Cafe in the Place Lamartine in Arles, The: F 463, JH 1575; Green Vineyard, The: F 475, JH 1595; Public Garden with Couple and Blue Fir Tree: The Poet's Garden III: F 479, JH 1601; Vincent's Bedroom in Arles: F 482, JH 1608; Les Alyscamps: Falling Autumn Leaves: F 486, JH 1620; Les Alyscamps: F 487, JH 1621; Red Vineyard, The: F 495, JH 1626; Trunk of an Old Yew Tree: F 573, JH 1618; Ploughed Field: F 574, JH 1586
589

2 May 1889

Gauguin, Lemonnier, Salles, Monet For bear in mind, to go on spending money on this painting when things might come to such a pitch that you would be short of money for your own housekeeping would be atrocious, and you know well that the chances of success are abominable.

Tuta teksto

Public Park with Weeping Willow: The Poet's Garden I: F 468, JH 1578; Red Chestnuts in the Public Park at Arles: F 517, JH 1689
590

3 May 1889

Salles, Puvis, Delacroix, Pangloss, Tanguy, Millet, Mathey, Besnard, Zorn, Carolus Duran, Monet, Breton, Israëls, Whistler, Leys, Daubigny, Quost, Jeannin, Monorobu, Meissonier, Balzac, Gauguin, Signac I sometimes regret I did not simply stick to the Dutch palette with its grey tones, and brush away at landscapes of Montmartre without any fuss.

Tuta teksto

Park at Arles, The: F 1468, JH 1498


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