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"For myself I have nothing to complain of, I am feeling absolutely normal, so to speak, but without an idea for the future, and really I do not know what is going to happen . . . . ."
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| 591
c. 10-15 May 1889 | Salles, Millet, Eugène Delacroix | I am losing the vague dread, the fear of the thing. And little by little I can come to look upon madness as a disease like any other.
I shall count myself very happy if I can manage to work enough to earn my living, for it worries me a lot when I think that I have done so many pictures and drawings without ever selling one. Do not be in too much of a hurry to think that this is an injustice. I myself don't know in the least. | Lilacs: F 579, JH 1692; Irises: F 608, JH 1691 |
| 592
22 May 1889 | Weissenbruch, Bernard, Gauguin, Diaz, Monticelli, Van Goyen, Troyon, Marchal, Méryon, Jundt, M. Maris, Cézanne, Pissaro | Most epileptics bite their tongue and injure themselves. Rey told me that he had seen a case where someone had mutilated his own ear, just as I did, and I think I heard a doctor from here, who came to see me with the director, say that he too had seen it before.
But the question of money, whatever one does, is always with us, like the enemy facing the troops, and cannot be denied or ignored. | Sower, The: F 450, JH 1627; 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; Green Vineyard, The: F 475, JH 1595; Vincent's Bedroom in Arles: F 482, JH 1608; Red Vineyard, The: F 495, JH 1626; La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin): F 508, JH 1671; Ploughed Field: F 574, JH 1586; Lilacs: F 579, JH 1692; Irises: F 608, JH 1691; Corner in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital, A: F 609, JH 1693; Death's-Head Moth: F 610, JH 1702; Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital, The: F 734, JH 1698; Death's-Head Moth: F 1523, JH 1700 |
| 593
c. 2 June 1889 | Delacroix, Millet, Rousseau, Dupré, Daubigny, Léon Glaize, Perrault, Guy de Maupassant's Fort comme la Mort, Zola's Le Rêve | As for me, my health is good, and as for my brain, that will be, let us hope, a matter of time and patience. | Night Cafe in the Place Lamartine in Arles, The: F 463, JH 1575; 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 |
| 594
9 June 1889 | Peyron, Chardin, Jules Garnier, Leys, Braquemond, Meissonier, Jaequemart, Hals, Rembrandt, Van der Meer, Gauguin, Bernard, Anquetin, Ruysdael, Michel, Van Goyen | It is queer that every time I try to reason with myself to get a clear idea of things, why I came here and that after all it is only an accident like any other, a terrible dismay and horror seizes me and prevents me from thinking. | Vincent's Bedroom in Arles: F 482, JH 1608; Corner in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital, A: F 609, JH 1693; Corner in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital, A: F 611, JH 1723; Green Wheat Field with Cypress: F 719, JH 1725 |
| 595
17 or 18 June 1889 | Isaäcson, De Haan, Gauguin, Bernard, Delacroix, Courbet, Daumier, St. Ouen, Zola, Renan, Forain, Shakespeare | I so often think that after some time your marriage, I hope, will give you back your old vigour, and that a year from now you will be in better health. | Vincent's Bedroom in Arles: F 482, JH 1608; L'Arlesienne: Madame Ginoux with Gloves and Umbrella: F 489, JH 1625; La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin): F 508, JH 1671; Corner in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital, A: F 609, JH 1693; Starry Night: F 612, JH 1731; Olive Trees with the Alpilles in the Background: F 712, JH 1740; Courtyard of the Hospital at Arles, The: F 1467, JH 1688; Park at Arles, The: F 1468, JH 1498; Olive Trees in a Mountain Landscape: F 1543, JH 1743 |
| 596
25 June 1889 | Monticelli, Gauguin, Bernard, André Bonger, Rod, Alphonse Kair, Souvestre, Droz, Abbé Constantin, Carnot, Zadig ou la destinée by Voltaire, Candide, Delacroix, Monthénard, Pissarro, Rembrandt, Braun, Salles | The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts, I should like to make something of them like the canvases of the sunflowers, because it astonishes me that they have not vet been done as I see them. | Cypresses: F 613, JH 1746; Wheat Field with Reaper and Sun: F 617, JH 1753; Cypresses with Two Female Figures: F 620, JH 1748; Cypresses: F 1524, JH 1749; Cypresses: F 1525, JH 1747 |
| 597
2 July 1889 | Mother, Cor, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Victor Hugo, Renan, Reid, Monticelli, Zola | But what touches me, as in some novelists of our day, is that the voices of these people, which in Shakespeare's case reach us from a distance of several centuries, do not seem unfamiliar to us. It is so much alive that you think you know them and see the thing. | Sower, The: F 422, JH 1470; Mountainous Landscape behind Saint-Paul Hospital: F 611, JH 1723; Wheat Field with Reaper and Sun: F 617, JH 1753; Cypresses with Two Female Figures: F 620, JH 1748; Courtyard of the Hospital at Arles, The: F 1467, JH 1688; Park at Arles, The: F 1468, JH 1498; Fields with Poppies: F 1494, JH 1752; Trees with Ivy: F 1522, JH 1695; Cypresses: F 1524, JH 1749; Cypresses: F 1525, JH 1747; Wheat Field with Cypresses: F 1538, JH 1757; Starry Night: F 1540, JH 1732; Olive Trees in a Mountain Landscape: F 1544, JH 1741; Enclosed Wheat Field with Reaper: F 1546, JH 1754; Mountain Landscape Seen across the Walls: F 1547, JH 1724; Wheat Field with Cypresses: F 1548, JH 1726 |
| 599
6 July 1889 | Roulin, Salles, Peyron, Measure for Measure, Henry VIII, Socrates, Mauve | I very much like to think that illness sometimes heals us, that is to say, when the discomfort comes to a crisis, it is necessary for the recovery of the body's normal condition. | --- |
| 600
c. 9 July 1889 | Salles, Dr. Rey, Millet | Full Text | 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; Red Vineyard, The: F 495, JH 1626; La Crau with Peach Trees in Blossom: F 514, JH 1681; View of Arles with Trees in Blossom: F 515, JH 1683; Orchard in Blossom with View of Arles: F 516, JH 1685; Red Chestnuts in the Public Park at Arles: F 517, JH 1689; Pollard Willows: F 520, JH 1690; Lilacs: F 579, JH 1692; Irises: F 608, JH 1691; Corner in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital, A: F 609, JH 1693; Wheat Field with Reaper and Sun: F 617, JH 1753; Mountains at Saint-Remy with Dark Cottage: F 622, JH 1766; Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital, The: F 734, JH 1698 |
| 601
22 August 1889 | Roulin, Gauguin, Bernard, Schuffenecker, Rodin, Rembrandt, Lacaze Gallery, Claude Monet | I no longer see any possibility of having courage or hope. | Mountains at Saint-Remy with Dark Cottage: F 622, JH 1766; Entrance to a Quarry: F 744, JH 1802 |
| 602
3 or 4 July 1889 | Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Giotto, Henri Conscience, Peyron, Campine, Cazine, Monet, Delacroix, Rousseau, Diaz, Rodin, Meissonier, Daumier, Millet, Hetzel, Bernard, Fontainebleau, Bodmer, Brion, Les Misérables, Brias, Ricard, Cabanel, Rivet | Perhaps I exaggerate in the misery of my having been bowled over by my illness again – but I am sort of afraid. | Mountains at Saint-Remy with Dark Cottage: F 622, JH 1766; Enclosed Field with Ploughman: F 622, JH 1768 |
| 603
6 July 1889 | Gauguin, Monticelli, Voltaire | Their [cicadas] song in the great heat here has the same charm for me as the cricket on the hearth for the peasants at home. Old man - don't let's forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives, and that we obey them without knowing it. | Olive Trees with the Alpilles in the Background: F 712, JH 1740; Evening Landscape with Rising Moon: F 735, JH 1761; Tree Trunks with Ivy: F 746, JH 1762; Three Cicadas: F 1445, JH 1765; Olive Trees in a Mountain Landscape: F 1544, JH 1741 |
| 604
5 or 6 September 1889 | Tanguy, Maus, Bernard, Mellery, Henri Conscience, Delacroix, Legros, Guizot, Dostoevsky, Corot, Daubigny, Dupré, Rousseau, Millet, Guillaumin, Laval, Gauguin, Demont-Breton, Peyron, Brias, Ricard | Well, do you know what I hope for, once I allow myself begin to hope? It is that the family will be for you what nature, the lumps of soil, the grass, the yellow wheat, the peasant, are for me, in other words, that you find in your love for people something not only to work for, but to comfort and restore you when you need it. | Vincent's Bedroom in Arles: F 482, JH 1608; Vincent's Bedroom in Arles: F 483, JH 1793; Vincent's Bedroom in Arles: F 484, JH 1771; Wheat Field with Reaper and Sun: F 617, JH 1753; Wheat Fields with Reaper at Sunrise: F 618, JH 1773; Wheat Field behind Saint-Paul Hospital with a Reaper: F 619, JH 1793; Self-Portrait: F 626, JH 1770; Self-Portrait: F 627, JH 1772; Portrait of Trabuc, an Attendant at Saint-Paul Hospital: F 629, JH 1774; Olive Trees: F 711, JH 1791; Wheat Field with Cypresses: F 743, JH 1790 |
| 605
7 or 8 September 1889 | Rousseau, Bodmer, Weissenbruch, Daumier, Tersteeg, Delacroix, Daudet, Bruyas, Beecher Stowe, Dickens, Braat, Pissarro, Vignon, Gauguin, Boch, Fromentin, Rembrandt, Potter, Titian, Velásquez, Gérôme, Degas | And I can already see myself one day in the future enjoying some small success, and missing the solitude and the anguish as I watched the reaper in the field below through the iron bars of my cell. It's an ill wind . . . . | Harvest at La Crau, with Montmajour in the Background: F 412, JH 1440; Night Cafe in the Place Lamartine in Arles, The: F 463, JH 1575; Green Vineyard, The: F 475, JH 1595; Tarascon Diligence: F 478a, JH 1605; Red Vineyard, The: F 495, JH 1626; La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin): F 508, JH 1671; Portrait of Trabuc, an Attendant at Saint-Paul Hospital: F 629, JH 1774; Pieta (after Delacroix): F 630, JH 1775; Portrait of Madame Trabuc: F 631, JH 1777; Pieta (after Delacroix): F 757, JH 1776 |
| 607
19 September 1889 | Pissarro, Zola, De Goncourt, Beethoven, Rivet, Mother, Wil, Cor, Delacroix, Carmen Sylva, Pierre Loti, Millet, "Les Travaux des Champs", Larat, Gauguin, Jouvre, Daumier, Meunier | I am astonished that with the modern ideas that I have . . . . that I have attacks such as a superstitious man might have and that I get perverted and frightful ideas about religion such as never came into my head in the North. | Field with Poppies: F 581, JH 1751; Olive Grove: F 585, JH 1758; Mountainous Landscape behind Saint-Paul Hospital: F 611, JH 1723; Starry Night: F 612, JH 1731; Wheat Fields with Reaper at Sunrise: F 618, JH 1773; Mountains at Saint-Remy with Dark Cottage: F 622, JH 1766; Self-Portrait: F 626, JH 1770; Self-Portrait: F 627, JH 1772; Pieta (after Delacroix): F 630, JH 1775; Portrait of Madame Trabuc: F 631, JH 1777; Good Samaritan (after Delacroix), The: F 633, JH 1974; Sheep-Shearers (after Millet), The: F 634, JH 1787; Two Peasants Digging (after Millet): F 648, JH 1833; Sower (after Millet), The: F 690, JH 1837; Olive Trees with the Alpilles in the Background: F 712, JH 1740; Olive Grove: F 715, JH 1759; Evening Landscape with Rising Moon: F 735, JH 1761; Entrance to a Quarry: F 744, JH 1802 |
| 608
28 September 1889 | Peyron | You will see that I am gaining a little in patience and that perseverance will be one result of my illness. | Starry Night over the Rhone: F 474, JH 1592; Green Vineyard, The: F 475, JH 1595; Vincent's Bedroom in Arles: F 483, JH 1793; Red Vineyard, The: F 495, JH 1626; Red Chestnuts in the Public Park at Arles: F 517, JH 1689; Self-Portrait: F 525, JH 1665; Field with Poppies: F 581, JH 1751; Olive Grove: F 585, JH 1758; Starry Night: F 612, JH 1731; Cypresses: F 613, JH 1746; Wheat Field with Cypresses: F 615, JH 1755; Wheat Field with Reaper and Sun: F 617, JH 1753; Wheat Fields with Reaper at Sunrise: F 618, JH 1773; Wheat Field behind Saint-Paul Hospital with a Reaper: F 619, JH 1792; Olive Trees: F 711, JH 1791; Olive Grove: F 715, JH 1759; Wheat Field with Cypresses at the Haute Galline near Eygalieres: F 717, JH 1756; Green Wheat Field: F 718, JH 1727; Evening Landscape with Rising Moon: F 735, JH 1761; Wheat Field with Cypresses: F 743, JH 1790; Tree Trunks with Ivy: F 746, JH 1762 |
| 609
5 October 1889 | Peyron, Isaäcson, Prévost, Gauguin, Bernard, Pissarro | What you say of Auvers is nevertheless a very pleasant prospect, and either sooner or later – without looking further – we must fix on that. | Mulberry Tree, The: F 637, JH 1796; Two Poplars on a Road through the Hills: F 638, JH 1797; Trees in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital: F 642, JH 1798 |
| 610
c. 8 October 1889 | Jules Dupré, Ziem, Meunier, Peyron, Gauguin, Bernard, Jules Breton, Millet, Otto Weber, Mme Dumont-Breton, Monticelli, Isaäcson | . . . during the attacks it is terrible – and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, like a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does. | Vincent's Bedroom in Arles: F 483, JH 1793; Wheat Field with Reaper and Sun: F 617, JH 1753; Mountains at Saint-Remy with Dark Cottage: F 622, JH 1766; Entrance to a Quarry near Saint-Remy: F 635, JH 1767; Enclosed Wheat Field with Peasant: F 641, JH 1795; Trees in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital: F 642, JH 1798; Trees in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital: F 643, JH 1799; Man is at Sea (after Virginie Demont-Breton), The: F 644, JH 1805; Les Peiroulets Ravine: F 645, JH 1803 |
| 611
c. 25 October 1889 | Peyron, Millet, Heine, Prévost, Goya, Velásquez, M. Doria, Guillaumin, Isaäcson | And yet very often terrible fits of depression come over me, and besides the more my health comes back to normal, the more my brain can reason coldly, the more foolish it seems to me, and a thing against all reason, to be doing this painting which costs us so much and brings in nothing, not even the outlay. | Ward in the Hospital in Arles: F 646, JH 1686; Two Peasants Digging (after Millet): F 648, JH 1833 |
| 613
c. 2 November 1889 | Millet, Cézanne, Guillaumin, Peyron, Gauguin, Bernard, Delacroix | Now that most of the leaves have fallen, the countryside is more like the North, and then I realize that if I returned to the North, I should see it more clearly than before. | Evening: The Watch (after Millet): F 647, JH 1834; Two Peasants Digging (after Millet): F 648, JH 1833; Evening: The End of the Day (after Millet): F 649, JH 1835; Wheat Field in Rain: F 650, JH 1839; Walk: Falling Leaves, The: F 651, JH 1844; Pine Trees with Figure in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital: F 653, JH 1840; Sower (after Millet), The: F 690, JH 1837 |
| 614
17 November 1889 | The Vingtistes, Tanguy, De Haan, Gauguin, Bernard, Rembrandt, Delacroix, Millais, Holman Hunt, Pinwell, Rossetti, Puvis de Chavannes, Salles, Peyron, Maus, Isaäcson | If I continue, I certainly agree with you that it is perhaps better to attack things with simplicity than to seek after abstractions. | Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers: F 456, JH 1561; Still Life: Vase with Fourteen Sunflowers: F 458, JH 1667; Red Vineyard, The: F 495, JH 1626; Orchard in Blossom with View of Arles: F 516, JH 1685; Corner in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital, A: F 609, JH 1693; Enclosed Field with Rising Sun: F 737, JH 1862 |
| 615
c. 21 November 1889 | Bernard, Gauguin, Delacroix, Puvis, English Pre-Raphaelites, Isaäcson, Millet, Lhermitte, Roll | How kind you are to me, and how I wish I could do something good, so as to prove to you that I would like to be less ungrateful. | Olive Grove: Orange Sky: F 586, JH 1854; Olive Grove with Picking Figures: F 587, JH 1853; 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 |
| 617
c. 15 December 1889 | Monticelli, Gauguin, Peyron, Manet, Puvis de Chavannes, Isaäcson, Bernard | And if I could one day prove that I have not impoverished the family, that would comfort me. | Vincent's Bedroom in Arles: F 482, JH 1608; Vincent's Bedroom in Arles: F 484, JH 1771; Pine Trees against a Red Sky with Setting Sun: F 652, JH 1843; Olive Picking: F 654, JH 1868; Olive Picking: F 655, JH 1869; Olive Picking: F 656, JH 1870; Enclosed Field with Rising Sun: F 737, JH 1862 |
| 618
7 December 1889 | --- | For myself I have nothing to complain of, I am feeling absolutely normal, so to speak, but without an idea for the future, and really I do not know what is going to happen . . . . | Vincent's Bedroom in Arles: F 483, JH 1793; 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; Mulberry Tree, The: F 637, JH 1796; Trees in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital: F 642, JH 1798; Trees in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital: F 643, JH 1799; Two Peasants Digging (after Millet): F 648, JH 1833; Road Menders, The: F 657, JH 1860; Olive Trees: F 711, JH 1791; Wheat Field with Cypresses: F 743, JH 1790 |
| 620
1 or 2 January 1890 | Peyron, [Alexander] Reid, Pissarro, Lauzet, Gauguin, Guillaumin, Mother, Wil | Oh, while I was ill there was a fall of damp and melting snow. I got up in the night to look at the country. Never, never had nature seemed to me so touching and so full of feeling. | --- |
| 621
3 January 1890 | Salles, Peyron, Hugo, Michelet, Vierge, Lauzet, Hervier, Boggs, Doré, Daumier | Full Text | 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; Mountains at Saint-Remy with Dark Cottage: F 622, JH 1766; Enclosed Wheat Field with Peasant: F 641, JH 1795; Evening: The Watch (after Millet): F 647, JH 1834; Two Peasants Digging (after Millet): F 648, JH 1833; Wheat Field in Rain: F 650, JH 1839; Olive Picking: F 654, JH 1868; Olive Picking: F 655, JH 1869; Olive Picking: F 656, JH 1870; Road Menders, The: F 657, JH 1860; Road Menders, The: F 658, JH 1861; Les Peiroulets Ravine: F 661, JH 1871; Les Peiroulets Ravine: F 662, JH 1804; 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; Meadow in the Mountains: Le Mas de Saint-Paul, A: F 721, JH 1864 |
| 622
4 January 1890 | Roulin, Salles, Peyron | Once away from here--let's suppose so--we must really see if something can be done with my canvases. | Mountains at Saint-Remy with Dark Cottage: F 622, JH 1766; Pine Trees against a Red Sky with Setting Sun: F 652, JH 1843; Les Peiroulets Ravine: F 661, JH 1871; Les Peiroulets Ravine: F 662, JH 1804; Landscape with Olive Tree and Mountains in the Background: F 663, JH 1866; White Cottage among the Olive Trees, The: F 664, JH 1865; Meadow in the Mountains: Le Mas de Saint-Paul, A: F 721, JH 1864 |
| 623
c. 12-15 January 1890 | Millet, Lavielle, Lauzet, Peyron, Fortuny, Jimenez, Tapiró, Gauguin, De Haan, Vernier, Lerat, Daumier, Régamey, Delacroix, Meissonier, Vignon, Seurat | Full Text | Plough and the Harrow (after Millet), The: F 632, JH 1882; Evening: The Watch (after Millet): F 647, JH 1834; Evening: The End of the Day (after Millet): F 649, JH 1835; Drinkers (after Daumier), The: F 667, JH 1884; First Steps (after Millet): F 668, JH 1883; Prisoners Exercising (after Dore): F 669, JH 1885; Morning: Peasant Couple Going to Work (after Millet): F 684, JH 1880; Noon: Rest from Work (after Millet): F 686, JH 1881 |
| 625
2 February 1890 | Isaäcson, Quost, Jeannin, Gauguin, De Haan, Russell, Millet, Lauzet, Aurier, Salles, Wil, Mother | Now as for the little boy, why don't you call him Theo in memory of our father, it would certainly give a great deal of pleasure to me. | L'Arlesienne: Madame Ginoux with Gloves and Umbrella: F 489, JH 1625; Sower (after Millet), The: F 689, JH 1836 |
| 626
10 or 11 February 1890 | Aurier, Degas, Gauguin, Corot, Rousseau, Dupré, Reid, Tersteeg, Daumier, Doré, Delacroix, Millet, Monticelli, Lauzet | . . . after all I think, I think, that I would still rather be a shoemaker than a musician in colours. | Cypresses with Two Female Figures: F 620, JH 1748; Good Samaritan (after Delacroix), The: F 633, JH 1974; Drinkers (after Daumier), The: F 667, JH 1884; Prisoners Exercising (after Doré): F 669, JH 1885; Woodcutter (after Millet), The: F 670, JH 1886 |
| 628
15 April 1890 | Gauguin, Russell, Pissarro | . . . I am pretty well or altogether in despair about myself. Perhaps, perhaps I might really recover if I were in the country for a time. | --- |
| 629
30 April 1890 | Millet, Aurier, Gauguin, Tanguy, Peyron, Bernard | Please ask M. Aurier not to write any more articles on my painting, insist upon this, that to begin with he is mistaken about me, since I am too overwhelmed with grief to be able to face publicity. | Potato Eaters, The: F 82, JH 764; Cottage at Nightfall: F 83, JH 777; Old Cemetery Tower at Nuenen, The: F 84, JH 772; L'Arlesienne (Madame Ginoux): F 540, JH 1892; L'Arlesienne (Madame Ginoux): F 541, JH 1893; L'Arlesienne (Madame Ginoux): F 542, JH 1894; L'Arlesienne (Madame Ginoux): F 543, JH 1895; Olive Grove with Picking Figures: F 587, JH 1853; Cypresses with Two Female Figures: F 620, JH 1748; Olive Picking: F 654, JH 1868; Olive Picking: F 656, JH 1870; Les Peiroulets Ravine: F 661, JH 1871; Blossoming Almond Tree: F 671, JH 1891; 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; Peasants Lifting Potatoes: F 694, JH 1922; Two Peasant Women Digging in Field with Snow: F 695, JH 1923; Olive Trees with Yellow Sky and Sun: F 710, JH 1856 |
| 630
2 May 1890 | Peyron, Charles Blanc, Gauguin, Guillaumin, Rembrandt | Oh, if I could have worked without this accursed disease - what things I might have done, isolated from others, following what the country said to me. But there, this journey is over and done with. | Les Peiroulets Ravine: F 661, JH 1871; Les Peiroulets Ravine: F 662, JH 1804 |
| 631
4 May 1890 | Peyron | The surroundings here are beginning to weigh me down more than I can say – heavens above, I've been patient for more than a year – I need some air, I feel overwhelmed by boredom and grief. | Meadow in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital: F 672, JH 1975; Pine Trees and Dandelions in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital: F 676, JH 1970 |
| 632
3 May 1890 | Peyron, Gauguin, Delacroix, Quost | Full Text | La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin): F 508, JH 1671; L'Arlesienne (Madame Ginoux): F 543, JH 1895; Good Samaritan (after Delacroix), The: F 633, JH 1974; Meadow in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital: F 672, JH 1975; Raising of Lazarus (after Rembrandt), The: F 677, JH 1972 |
| 633
11 or 12 May 1890 | Tanguy, Seurat | At present all goes well, the whole horrible attack has disappeared like a thunderstorm and I am working to give a last stroke of the brush here with a calm and steady enthusiasm. | 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 |
| 634
13 May 1890 | Peyron, André Bonger, Jo | I tell you, I feel my head is absolutely calm for my work, and the brush strokes come to me and follow each other logically. | Still Life: Pink Roses in a Vase: F 682, JH 1979 |
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