Vincent van Gogh - L'Arlesienne (Madame Ginoux). One of four versions 1890 Museum of Modern Art, Rome While in the asylum at Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh painted another five portraits of Madame Ginoux, based on Gauguin's charcoal drawing of November 1888. Of these, one was intended for Gauguin, one for his brother Theo, one for himself and one for Madame Ginoux. The provenance of the version in the Kröller-Müller Museum is not known in detail, but the painting is known to have been previously owned by Albert Aurier, an early champion of Vincent's paintings.The version intended for Madame Ginoux was lost and has not been recovered. This is the version Vincent was delivering to Madame Ginoux in Arles when he suffered his relapse on February 22, 1890.In an unfinished letter to Gauguin that was never sent, Vincent remarked that working on her portrait cost him another month of illness.Gauguin's version was the one with a pink background, currently in the São Paulo Museum of Art. Gauguin was enthusiastic about the portrait, writing:"I’ve seen the canvas of Madame Ginoux. Very fine and very curious, I like it better than my drawing. Despite your ailing state you have never worked with so much balance while conserving the sensation and the interior warmth needed for a work of art, precisely in an era when art is a business regulated in advance by cold calculations." In a letter to his sister Wil, dated 5 June 1890, Vincent set out his philosophy for doing portraits: "I should like to do portraits which will appear as revelations to people in a hundred years' time. In other words I am not trying to achieve this by photographic likeness but by rendering our impassioned expressions, by using our modern knowledge and appreciation of colour as a means of rendering and exalting character ... The portrait of the Arlésienne has a colourless and matt flesh tone, the eyes are calm and very simple, the clothing is black, the background pink, and she is leaning on a green table with green books. But in the copy that Theo has, the clothing is pink, the background yellowy-white, and the front of the open bodice is muslin in a white that merges into green. Among all these light colours, only the hair, the eyelashes and the eyes form black patches."
The author Deborah Heiligman, of the biography Vincent and Theo, writes an engaging book about the famous Van Gogh brothers.
Road with Pollard Willows, 1881, Vincent van Gogh Medium: ink,paper https://www.wikiart.org/en/vincent-van-gogh/road-with-pollard-willows-1881-2
From: Vincent van Gogh to: Theo van Gogh - Isleworth, Friday, 3 November 1876- "Our life is a pilgrim's progress. I once saw a very beautiful picture: it was a landscape at evening. In the distance on the right-hand side a row of hills appeared blue in the evening mist. Above those hills the splendour of the sunset, the grey clouds with their linings of silver and gold and purple".
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From: Vincent van Gogh to: Theo van Gogh - Isleworth, Friday, 3 November 1876- "Our life is a pilgrim's progress. I once saw a very beautiful picture: it was a landscape at evening. In the distance on the right-hand side a row of hills appeared blue in the evening mist. Above those hills the splendour of the sunset, the grey clouds with their linings of silver and gold and purple".
Von seinem Studio im schwedischen Gothenburg aus, ist Illustrator Patrik Svensson für internationale Auftraggeber tätig. Starbucks, IKEA, Sony Music, The New Yorker oder das Wall Street Journal zählen beispielsweise zu seinen Klienten. Für sein privates Projekt “Famous People Lettering” hat der junge Mann, optische Elemente bzw. Trademarks bekannter Persönlichkeiten in deren Namens-Schriftzüge integriert, welche sich dem Betrachter teilweise erst bei... Weiterlesen
A selection of the surviving 902 letters that Vincent van Gogh wrote, which contradict the idea that the painter was a "reckless and unreflective genius", are to be published and exhibited.
On January 31, 1890, Theo van Gogh announced the birth of his son in a letter to Vincent van Gogh. The little boy was named Vincent Willem, after Vincent. ...
The self-inflicted wound was even worse than most thought
